Many white-fronted geese are flying to Lake Utonai in Tomakomai City, Hokkaido, heralding the arrival of spring, and we could see them ``roosting'' taking off all at once in search of food at sunrise.
Lake Utonai in Uenae, Tomakomai City is known as one of Japan's leading stopover sites for migratory birds, and every year, as spring approaches, many geese, such as white-fronted geese and blue-bellied geese, come to rest on their way north from their wintering grounds on Honshu. I am.
Normally, they arrive around late February, but this year the ice on the lake melted early, and they have been seen since around the middle of last month.
The morning of the 25th was foggy, but just as the sun rose, about 30,000 white-fronted geese and other birds took off en masse across the lake, making the sound of their calls and the sound of their wings, in search of food in the surrounding rice fields.
People with cameras came to take photos of this moment, known as ``roosting,'' and a man who lives in the city said, ``Migratory birds come twice a year, so I come each time to take pictures.'' .The sound of their cries and the sound of them taking off was the best.''