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Watching the mudflats

 The birds you can see at the mudflats are kinds of Curlews and Gulls.  The Japanese Crane is one of the birds that live in the mudflats in Nemuro.  The mudflats where many kinds of species live are an important place for food.  Even eagles, which usually live in the mudflats in Lake Furen visit there.  It is the White-tailed Eagle.  Its main food so they often appear at low tide.  They come to hunt the fish left as the tide leaves.  They sometimes rob the crane their fish.  If the tide is out, you should take a stroke near there.  You may see some eagles there.

Looking for the summer flowers

After spring with the colorful flowers, the summer flowers are ready to blossom.  There are many chic flowers in summer, especially kinds of purple flowers such as Geranium yesoense, Iris ensata, Lobelia sessilifolia.  If you are not careful, you may miss the elusive Halenia corniculata, Spiranthes sinesis and so on.  These flowers, which display their beautiful shapes in spring, have come to fruit and seed.  The flowers, which have finished blossoming, are rare and very hard to see.

Oasis of the nature living things in the mudflats

At the time of the full tide in summer, big mudflats appear in Lake Furen.  This produces a lot of food for birds and other animals (Neanthes japonica,seashells, crabs and shrimps).  Many birds and other animals can find enough food because the mudflats of Lake Furen are very fertile.  We also receive the same benefit from there.  Cranes and fishermen live together but they do not interfere each other.  You can see this relationship between them.

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