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The swan lake with 5,000 of them fly in.
Suibara in Agano City has an artificial lake famous as a resting place for migrating swans. The first flock migrate from Siberia in early October to over-winter and stay until late March. Around the peak in late November, over 5,000 swans can be seen.
In 1954, the late Juzaburo Yoshikawa succeeded in feeding wild swans for the first time in Japan. He became famous as the first Uncle Swan. In the same year, “the swan stopover site, Suibara” was designated as a natural monument of Japan. In 2008, it was registered in the Ramsar Convention (an international treaty to protect wetlands and waterbirds ecosystem).
Generations of Uncle Swan have been feeding the swans everyday at 9am, 11am and 3pm and you can hear the call “Koi, Koi! (Come, come!)” to this day, to which swans, ducks and other water fowl flock together.
Hyoko with divine snowy mountain range
Swans come closer at Uncle Swan’s feeding time
At sunrise, swans go to feed on the nearby rice fields
The sunrise painting Lake Hyoko in red
Some reviews are AI-translated.
This is a well-preserved bird sanctuary, but I was surprised by how few swans there were. Instead, there were mostly wild ducks.
