Swans bring Winter
Mogami-gawa(Mogami River) is the largest river in Yamagata Prefecture, and Sakata is located in the river mouth of that river.
Numerous swans and ducks come from Siberia and stay here during winter. I knew swans squawk while flying only after coming to live in Sakata. They squawk even in the middle of the night…
When I hear their voices, I know winter is coming.
In the daytime, most of them has been away to rice fields to get foods. But when evening comes, they come back to the river mouth to rest.
Sakata
06.11, 2009
