As announced byANUUMigrators, last week we broke up with the hope of seeing a slight recovery of post-nuptial migration, the classic one of the "estatini" which usually arrives with its "highlight" for the Black Balia on the date of the great feast of the patron saint of Bergamo, Sant'Alessandro, which falls on August 26 (this year on Monday). But even the Saints are not ... helping us because, after a pleasant modest movement of Black Nurses on Sunday 25th, everything was expected to respect the date, handed down from the memory of our elders.
This was not the case, because the very hot days at the end of the month, with the mercury column that exceeded even the 37°C, they have made our winged friends desist in descending towards the plains, remaining still at high altitude. What we can highlight, with particular attention, is the continuous and constant step of the Beccafico which will exceed the maximum point recorded in 2002 (limited to the month of August) with 71 specimens, and which will be improved as a demonstration of the fact that all species show an alternation in the long cycle of ten years.
No worries also for the other "ecstatic" because the August heat blocked their descent towards the winter shores and we will have, instead, with a very fast pace, a month of September of great interest. And so it will be for all other species late on the roadmap, as the old registers of over a century ago teach.