Over the past couple of weeks local birders have been finding migrating Wheatears stopping over on the huge pile of rocks that is the Cardiff Barrage, the man-made structure that was built in the 1990s to cut Cardiff Bay off from the Bristol Channel and turn it in to a virtual lake. The Wheatears are returning from over-wintering in tropical Africa and, after taking a short breather on the Barrage, they head further north to their breeding grounds in- and up-land. Unfortunately, I couldn’t locate any Wheatears today but the many Pied wagtails were entertaining, flitting busily hither and yon.
92/365 Barrage wags
02 Tuesday Apr 2019
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Delightful creatures, so busy always. I once saw one without a tail!
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And was your tail-less bird flying? I wonder how they navigate in that situation.
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No, it was walking about on the high street; I couldn’t, at first place why it looked so odd. I investigated when I got home and it seems that the tail feathers will re-grow. That was a relief.
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Good to know! 🙂
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Pied Waggies are pretty enough I think. I also love the way they are never still.
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They have a lot of character, too. 🙂
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