And then a crane in the sky...

Most of you know I am a nature freak. LOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE being in the nature. A couple days after the pheasant I was sitting in the park with Noi and looked up and a very large Heron was flying right over us. Amazing. For those of you that don't know, Akita City is not a small city, so it's truly amazing to see these things, although I guess this is the luck of living on an island filled with rivers. Japan has the most rivers I've seen in all my travels. Filled with very large carp, which you can usually see, because almost all the rivers are clear and shallow.