ANUU Migratoristi takes stock weekly on the migratory passage in Italy: a “End of September to forget”.
It is just a week at the end of September to forget for the bad weather conditions that have affected the whole of northern Italy, conditioning, indeed stopping, the beginning of the autumn migration. And also the last weekend of the month was no less, with the exception of the very positive return of the Blackcaps who reappeared massively on Friday 28 and Saturday 29.
Some transharian migrants are still present such as the Beccafico, the Black Balia, the Cannaiola, the Common Redstart and on Sunday 30th the first Bigiarella of the season was captured. Few also the Blackbirds, while for the Thrushes, however, it is all to be postponed.
Suffice it to consider that last year, in the month of September alone, 227 were ringed, against only 36 this year. Same situation for the Robin, still not very present (last year they were ringed 271 against 103 of this autumn).
But our concern lies in the fact that the whole Peloponnese Peninsula (that is Greece) has always been sunny, as if to teach them a more peaceful way in the descent towards wintering, diverting some of their currents, from the passage over our Eastern Alps.
This is our concern that we will be able to verify only in the next few days. Our expectations are, however, very different!
1 October 2012
ANUU Migrators