u-eee

I guess it wasn't enough that I have to leave the morning sunlight on Mt. Fuji and Standing Rock to begin my commute to Tokyo every morning. On my second day, just as I was putting on all my bike wear to fend off the cold, a huge flock of u, or cormorants, and shirasagi, white egrets  (about a third of them are in the above photo) came swooping in and descended on what must have been a school of fish just outside the window. They'd dive and then take off and make these huge sweeping circles before settling again in the water. I've seen three of four of the egrets before, standing in the shallow river water hunting for fish, but these were dozens of them.