Author: vc-dev

Today was really bad weather.
Around Sounkyo many traffic roads were closed for bad weather.

This time it is getting warm, sometimes cold.
Please take care of yourself.

The photo is “Bombycilla garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758)”.
They came flying last November.
Recently they act in herd and fly around Kamikawa town.

The number of coming flying depends on the year. Why don’t you go out and do birdwatching for your health with binoculars.

Weather forecast says that it will be warm from today’s afternoon and after that it will be bad weather beginning of next week.
When you visit Sounkyo, please check weather or road information.
And drive safety.

But now today’s weather is ok.
I walk in the woods with snowshoe.

In winter season we can walk many place. Because everything is under the snow.
When walking, we can see feeding tree of “ Dryocopus martius” and scratches of brown bear.
*Scratches of brown bear in this picture is very old. But we found new ones.
Now brown bear is hibernating.
But when Weather forecast is warm and rainy, please act very carefully.

I have seen beautiful blue sky days in a long time.
So I went to see Daisetuzan mountain range with snowshoe.
This place is “Daisetsu mori no garden” that is famous sight seeing place.

Here in Daisetsuzan mountain range we have much snow from now.

When you go to Daisetsuzan, please act very carefully.

When I walked in the woods with snowshoe, and took a rest under the white birch tree, many Japanese tit “Parus minor minor ”.came flying.
I heard something knocking tree, so I looked up and found “Pteromys volans orii 〈Kuroda, 1921〉” in the hole of tree.

Many Japanese tit knocked the tree, the vibration made “Pteromys volans orii 〈Kuroda, 1921〉” wake up.
That’s a great gift.
I found their dropping around there.
There was nothing,
So I wander that he took a rest.

The temperature is -5°c now.
Everyday temperature keeps changing.
This is this winter pattern.
For animal, it is sometimes freezing, warm, raining, snowstorm.
It must be hard winter.
Look at the picture!
“Sciurus vulgaris orientis ” is active in the morning, stays nest in the afternoon originally in winter season.
But it is active, running in the afternoon.