Maybe it’s because we’ve had a lot of fine clear weather and, rather than dropping down to rest in Cardiff Bay, they’ve continued their flights north. Maybe they just don’t like the look of the place, with the increasing numbers of people and out-of-control dogs. Whatever the reason, there’s been a notable absence of migrating Wheatears around the Bay this year, with just one bird noted a couple of days ago and then two, a male and a female, this morning. And that’s around two weeks later than usual – for three of the past four years, I’ve seen my first Wheatears on 20 March. Fortunately, I had already decided to walk around part of the Bay this morning so was there when I bumped in to the birder who’d just seen the male Wheatear, and here he is (the bird not the birder) …