GC38K68 Swan (Traditional Cache) in Chiba, Japan created by yuu2@Team MAX coffee

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Hidden : 12/1/2011

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Welcome to Motono (Inzai-shi)! A swan comes flying in every winter and becomes the topic. From the middle of October to the middle of March, I can watch the figure of the swan. The bait spear seems to give the ears of the bread mainly on waste rice to bait twice a day at from 4:00 in (on Saturday and Sunday 8:00) and the evening at half past 6 a.m. Not to mention New Year holidays, the bait spearmanship continues even bad weather such as rain or the snow every day. There is the volunteer staff all day on Saturday and Sunday in particular and I observe a swan and play it with the visitor. Though, as for the golden age, the visitor had the time more than 150,000 a year; is approximately 50,000 now. I seem to have possibilities to surpass 2, 000 people on a fine day. After collecting water in the rice field by irrigation canal construction in 1992 with an opportunity, six swans swooped down. Deyama Mitsuo (the deceased) nearby tried feeding in the same clothes patiently every day at the same time and succeeded in feeding for three years. The number of swans which came flying increased year by year, and it was introduced in the media as "volost of the swans", and a person came to come from the distant place. On a holiday, the meeting which protected a swan performed a free service of the sweet alcoholic drink made from sake lees and completely colonized as a natural scene or object which adds poetic charm to the season of the villages. The thing that the expense that beautiful Shiratori starts protection is considerable. From 1995, a meeting and a farming family protecting a swan manage to raise contribution and bait charges, repair costs of the rice field. The wish of people to want to protect nature which Shiratori can spend in peace forever can support this exercise. ----------------------Japan-------------------------- 本埜（印西市）にようこそ!!! 毎冬白鳥が飛来して話題になってます。 10月中旬から3月中旬まで、白鳥の姿を見ることが出来ます。餌やりは1日2回、朝6時半(土・日は8時)と夕方4時からで、餌にはクズ米を中心にパンの耳等も与えているのだそうです。正月はもちろん、雨や雪等の悪天候でも餌やりは毎日続けています。特に土・日はボランティアスタッフが一日中いて、白鳥を観察したり見学者の相手をしてくれます。見学者は、最盛期は年間15万人以上の時期もあったけれど、今は5万人ほど。天気の良い日には2、000人を超えることもあるのだそうです。きっかけは，平成４年，用水路工事で水田に水を溜めたところ，６羽の白鳥が舞い降りた。近くの出山光男さん（故人）が，毎日同じ時間に同じ服装で根気よく餌付けを試みて，３年かけて餌付けに成功した。飛来する白鳥の数は年々増えて，「白鳥の郷」としてマスコミに紹介され，遠方から人が訪れるようになった。休日には，白鳥を守る会が甘酒の無料サービスを行うなど，すっかり村の風物詩として定着した。美しい白鳥も，保護にかかる費用は相当なもの。平成７年からは，白鳥を守る会や農家が義援金や餌代，水田の補修費を捻出している。白鳥が安心して過ごせる自然をいつまでも守りたいという人々の願いが，この運動を支えている。

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Fgbar Erq yvar

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

Swan Traditional Cache

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