[Lly] Järreistä...

[Pirkka Aalto]

Eurobirdnettiin tuli juuri mielenkiintoinen juttu järreistä...

t: Pirkka

> Recently, a mass-invasion of bramblings (Fringilla montifringilla) is 
> taking place alongside the hills of the Ruhr Valley between Bochum and 
> Duisburg. Today I have seen seemingly never-ending ribbons of birds 
> swirling through the crowns of the beech-forests. No serious attempt of an 
> estimate can be made here, since each calculation ends between 1.5 an 5 
> millions of bramblings.
> Two days ago, West German Television and WDR-broadcasting sent the news of 
> approx. 1.3 millions of bramblings in the South of Essen. Observers say it 
> was most expressive.
> This invasion has been lasting at least since 29th january, the first 
> hundreds of thousands of bramblings being reported from the woods near 
> Muelheim. Ornithologists in the mountains of the "Sauerland" calculate 
> their wintering birds at a total of 200.000 to 250.000, which they are now 
> missing, as a blanket of half a meter of snow covers the earth.
> This seems to be a lifetime´s record as from 1906 on (Otto Le Roi)  no 
> single observer has reported quantities like this from the Rhineland and 
> Westphalia.
>
> happy on a rainy day
> Dietmar Beckmann, Ruhrort