The thermometer in the car reads plus 6 degrees Celsius, warm enough to not be February temperatures in the Kushiro region.The air has warmed up and the marshland has returned to its natural state.
The number of tanboks gathering at the feeding ground seems to be decreasing.
I hope that the rapid climate change will not bring about a time when the scenery we were able to see this year will be gone in a few years.
Iwaiboki Sluice Gate, which has withstood the wind and snow for 94 years.
A view from Hosooka Observatory that could be the pattern of a carpet.
Swans wintering at Sunayu, Lake Kussharo.