There are three small birds worth looking out for at present, all of them on the move south, and turning up in places where they would not have been seen in summer. Pied flycatchers are well-known breeding birds in Wales and some other parts of the west, but now there is a chance of seeing them in trees and hedges on the eastern side of the country. In summer the males are smart-looking black-and-white birds, but by now many of them look like the females, which are brown birds with a white wing patch. More than 200 have been seen at Spurn on the Yorkshire coast in recent days, most of them undoubtedly coming not from Wales but from countries north of Britain. Whinchats are mainly birds of the moorland gorse, but now they have come down to many places in lower country. They are pinkish, robin-like birds with a white eyestripe, and flick their tail constantly. Wrynecks are little, streaky-brown woodpeckers that feed on the ground and are often found on paths. They are scarcer migrants, arriving here from Scandinavia. They have the strange ability to twist their heads right round.