Author: vc-dev

What a beautiful snowcapped rowan it is!
Rowan’s red and white snow make a good contrast.

Around here there are a lot of rowan’s fruits as usual.
( This year has more berry than usual year.)
Why are there many fruits in this year?
Because this summer is good weather in blooming season.
When being pollinated, rain didn’t flow pollen. So it is easy to be pollinated.

Rowan has poison and better taste before the fruit ripens.
The fruits ripens, and freeze, the poison comes out.

Do wild birds know this, or not?
They have not come yet.
Soon the fruits will ripen, “Bombycilla garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758)”, “Bombycilla japonica”,” Turdus eunomus Temminck,” and Hypsipetes amaurotis “” will come.

Today’s minimum temperature was -7°c at Sounkyo visitor center.
This is no.1 in this winter.

It will be snowy and rainy for a whale.
And more it will be warm and cold again and again.
This snow might melt.

Driving forest road at low mountain, we met beautiful snow scenery.
This is a perfect winter scenery.

“Tetrastes　bonasia“live in only Hokkaido in Japan.
They live in low trees forest to subalpine forest.
We found many “etrastes　bonasia” around Mt.Kurodake and at forest road
They swell their far to keep warm as same as another birdswhen temperature is going down.
This “Tetrastes　bonasia” in the picture looks fat.

We met a red fox“Vulpes vulpes schrencki”after a long time.
Recently we meet foxes that have disease.

Fox’s far change to winter fur.
And more their tails are really nice and fluffy.

From this night to next week it will snow.
“Sciurus vulgaris orientis” is gathering something good for a nest, “Cervus nippon yesoensis” finished breeding season, chipmunks hibernate, wild animals are busy to prepare for winter.

*Last night it snowed in Sounkyo onsen mall.

As you get closer to Sounkyo, road is frozen.
Drive safety, please.

This photo is taken at the 5th station observation deck.

All mountains are covered with snow.
This is the winter view.
Next week it will snow at lower place.

Winter season comes!
We tell you again and again, please do not go mountains without winter gear.

Mountains is now mid-winter.
It is very dangerous to go mountains with summer style.