Author: vc-dev

Also thank you very much this year.

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I appreciate your support and encouragement in the past year.

This year is also hard and difficult because of COVID-19.
We hope next year will be a wonderful year.

To many guests who took part in our lectures, visited our center and watched our homepage, we can’t thank you enough.
We keep trying to giveyou good lectures of nature, good experiments of nature.

We close Dec 30th ~Jan 5th.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

We have winter lectures on Jan 15th.
Please check our homepage.

We are waiting for meet you taking measures against the corona virus.

We look forward to your continued good will in the coming year.

Sciurus vulgaris orientis

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It didn’t snow in this early morning.
Now it is snowing a lot.
“Sciurus vulgaris orientis” doesn’t hibernate ran here and there vigorously without caring snow in early morning.
Their activity time depends on seasons.
Now in winter they move only in the morning, after that they stay in their nest.
(In summer they move from sunrise to sunset.)
It sometimes will be warm, but there is 30cm snow deep.
This snow won’t melt next spring.

*Daisetsuzan Kurodake ski area open in November 28th.

Publication of a Visitor Center Report

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Center News november vol.106 has published.
This cover is “Aegithalos caudatus” that is very popular.
They are so cute looks like talking.
And another topics are 「 “Sciurus vulgaris orientis ” are fighting over wall nuts.
「“Cervus nippon yesoensis” in breeding season.」,「Autumn leaves in 2021.」

Please check them on our website.

Nisaetus nipalensis

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Many crows flied over the sky and come down to the ground.
Approaching there, there was a corpse of a deer.
The deer fell down from the cliff, and died.
Crow comes first, and “Nisaetus nipalensis” comes second.
“Nisaetus nipalensis” is about 80cm length, about 170cm with spreading wings.
They have a crest.
They always move like diving forest.
So we hardly find them.
They tried to get leftovers, but crows did mobbing and chased “Nisaetus nipalensis”.
So “Nisaetus nipalensis” gave up, went back to home.

bear　tracks

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Brown bears haven’t hibernated yet.
Depends on each bears many bears haven’t hibernated yet.
Soon they will hibernate at latest in end of December.
There is not so much snow.
When you go for a walk with snowshoes, pay attention to brown bears.