Hunting and Migration. The arrival of the first Song Thrushes it respects the usual dates of late September and the day of San Michele, the date of the first peak of this annual migration.
The species was made to wait until September 20, but then began to see itself with an interesting movement interrupted in the middle of the week by the storm that hit Lombardy and all of Italy in general on the 23rd, causing temperatures to drop by over ten degrees.
The good weather then recovered during the last days of the week allowing to observe the first passing blackbirds and some signs of migratory finches. Nonetheless, trans-Saharan migrants such as Prispoloni, Beccafichi and Black Balie have been ringed at the FEIN Ornithological Observatory in Arosio. In short, a swinging migration driven by cold currents alternating with beautiful sunny days. This influenced the migratory behavior of the species, characterizing the period with a generalized concern.
It should be emphasized that to some interesting presence of the Siskin in the low hills is added the observation in the same places of the first Frosoni in movement as well as the Sweeping Sparrow that on Sunday morning 27 was also ringed in the Arosian ornithological station that in the morning of the following day ( 28/9) saw a rather good presence of the Song Thrush and with the full moon, obscured during the night by a particular eclipse.
(September 28, 2015)
ANUU Migrators