Only a few days are left until the 2013 study activity of the FEIN Ornithological Observatory of Arosio is closed. Before resuming it for the eighteenth edition of the Wintering Project, now is the time to collect data for an overall examination of a certainly not exciting year, except for the period dedicated to the summers which were quite numerous for some species, first of all the Black Balia, followed by Beccafico, Codirosso and Luì piccolo. Then, from October onwards, it was a disillusionment. However, if we go back in time by reading the old register dated 1859 of the Bana family, there have been years similar to the latter, which confirms that numerical fluctuations represent a normality in the migratory phases. Unfortunately, those who follow this research and monitoring activity daily in the field, like the technicians of the Arosiana station, would never want to have these bad seasons. But the game of nature also wants these embarrassing situations to which one must submit.
All this to underline that the week just ended again did not offer anything interesting, if not a dozen Siskin rings ringed between 12 and 13 December. As regards the situation on the Italian territory, in general, the presence of the Redwing thrush has been stationary, while the Peppole and the long-awaited Cesene are always insufficiently observed.
News of the good presence of the Teal arrives among the aquatic ones, while the first Nordic winterers begin to be observed in the pools of water congenial to them. However, within the first ten days of January, an overall FEIN report will be published which has collected all the news from other foreign observatories on the spring and autumn migration of this year which is about to end.
16 December 2013
ANUU Migrators
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