Hokkaido"nature & sightseeing" Information
"Lake Kutcharo where the drama of the swan is seen"
■ Lake Kutcharo
The Whistling swan of a visitant comes to the lake in northern Hokkaido
and Hamatombetsu-cho like a regular service in spring and autumn every
year, and unfolds a drama. The lake used as the scene is "Lake Kutcharo"
The scene of the drama of Whistling swan
A lake is called rebroadcast place of the Whistling swan, is a break
place for recovering a physical strength for a long journey, and also serves
as a wintering site of a part of the Whistling swan.
■ Charm
Let's carry out these Whistling swan charm by which We come to Lake
Kutcharo like a drama, and tell it.
▼Charm ActⅠ---"families increase in number,-prosperity of autumn "
The cry "Khoo and Khoo" can be heard over a lake autumn and
early in October. It is the beginning of a drama. The Whistling swan and
others finished breeding, was accompanied by children, and has returned
from the (north neighborhood nearest to the Russian Far East community
and the North Pole) from north.
The swan has returned from long journey
They carried out the long journey and came to the lake.
In autumn, there is also much birds who goes in the quarter of Honshu
directly, and the number of the Whistling swan which come to a lake is
[ a maximum of ] about 2000 as one day first in November every year.
It is a highlight of this era which the figure of young swan which the
color of the body of the bigness of an about unchanging with an adult made
gray can observe in some places.
It is a child's swan which carried out gray.
▼Charm ActⅡ---"intense cold winterning"
Among the swans which have returned from north to the lake, although
it goes across the many in the quarter of Honshu, around 400 birds remain
in a lake as it is every year, and they pass the winter.
Frost of a lake is from the lakefront...
(November)
How do they overcome a severe winter narrowed by the water surface of
a lake freezing? It is the second act of the drama of swans at the time
of a trial.
If the water surface is shut, they will move to the river distant for
a while, and they will move a locus to condition of returning to a lake,
and will pass.
Drifting snow also brings near each other's body.
They get a scantiness of food in winter, and also there is no telling what kind of hazarder is being prepared.
February is a seisin in short of food. although the red foxes hears
about the chance which there is no swan which weakened or he attacks, he
does not carry out the situation of the red foxes -- "Cold water"
-- being adult -- weak. Swans open distance and avoid a conjuncture!
February is the scantiness of food.Care also about a fox.
Drifting snow also brings near each other's body, and carries out severity, and it is のぐ.
He gets a scantiness of food in winter, and also there is no telling what kind of hazarder is being prepared. February is a seisin in short of food. although I hear about the chance which there is no swan which weakened or I attack, I do not carry out the situation of the red fox -- "water" -- being adult -- weak. Swans open distance and avoid a conjuncture!
▼Charm ActⅢ---"season of love"
March when the swans which the ice of the lake began to be melted gradually
and overcame a severe winter will feel relieved.
We get warm and the water surface opens (March).
The swans which were moving in the quarter of Honshu begin to return,
They apply from the middle of April to the early in May, and will exceed
a maximum of 6000 birds in one day, and a lake is especially in confusion.
The lakes and swans of twilight
The third act is "the season of love" of swans.
If a new partner can do it, in order to confirm each other's love, "I
unite a beak "a happy ring"" will be seen.
In an early thing, from the end of the month in January, the slight
accuracy of love will continue, just before flying away to north.
It is a hunky-dory couple's birth!
An awkward Pair also builds a brilliant happy ring at first.
▼Charm Act Ⅳ---"Journey to the breeding"
Just before going to north the beginning of the month in May for breeding, swans suit in quest of the companion of love. And I leave a lake for every circle, I make a formation (becoming a long sequence), and fly toward the long journey to the Russian Far East community.
The swan which flies in over a lake
As for 6000 swans, the most will fly away by the middle of the month
in May, and Lake Kutcharo enters in a calm season till autumn when a swan
returns.
▼Others Charm...
"Beniya gensei-kaen in the place which faced from the lake the
Sea of Okhotsk from which We separated a few when it entered in June, after
swans took wing -- primeval A garden of flowers" is brought into the
lights.
A flower begins to bloom on an nature flower garden. about 100 sorts of flowers, such as Sendaihagi, rugosa rose, and Lilium dauricum,
are observance to the end of summer here -- .
Beniya Gensei-kaen
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* Information on the number of swan flying of an observatory is "here."
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