But the chaffinch and the tomtit stood below on the ground and gazed at the dead bird.
Come down and join us," called the chaffinch and the tomtit.
The chaffinch and the tomtit hopped about cheerfully enough in the bushes, and picked up what they could find.
The nest of the Chaffinch is an exquisite piece of workmanship, composed of moss, dry grass, fine roots felted together with wool, decorated externally with scraps of white lichens, and lined with hair and feathers.
I have frequently noticed something like rivalry or competition in singing between a chaffinch and another bird, such as a tree-pipit or a lesser whitethroat, or a willow-wren.
The gait of the chaffinch strikes one as peculiar, it is as a fact a hopping movement, but it gives the impression of a run.
A similar sombre hue distinguishes the peculiar chaffinch of the Canary Islands (Fringilla teydea), but to these islands as well as the Azores and Madeiras there belongs in common another chaffinch (F.
Indeed, the most dilatory chaffinch must have been singing since 19th February, and in fortunate seasons might have been heard on 7th January.
Browning, too, is scientifically safe in letting his chaffinch sing now "that the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf.
A distinguished American writer on birds once visited England in order to make the acquaintance of our most noted feathered people, and in his haste pronounced the chaffinch the 'prettiest British songster.
In Victoria Park I have met with some amusing instances of the entire absorption of the chaffinch votaries in their favourite bird, their knowledge of and quickness in hearing and seeing him, and inability to see and hear any other species.
Bird fanciers are very numerous in the East, and the gay chaffinch is to them the first of the feathered race; in fact, it may be said that he is first and the others nowhere.
The decrease of the chaffinch is most regretted by the East-enders, who have an extraordinary admiration for that bird.
The second incident relates to a chaffinch and its nest.
The chaffinch is perhaps the most commonly seen bird in Gairloch.
No, the chaffinch is not perplexed by so small a matter; he is an expert in materials, he understands botanical equivalents.
And, if the impossible happened and lichen failed entirely, I credit the Chaffinch with sufficient talent to be able to dispense with it and to build the foundations of his nest with some coarse moss or other.
A chaffinch sang on the 20th of February: all these are very early dates.
Almost every elm in spring has its chaffinch loudly challenging.
A white butterfly comes fluttering along the lane, and as it passes under a tree a chaffinch swoops down and snaps at it, but rises again without doing apparent injury, for the butterfly continues its flight.
They visited the nest of the baby goldfinches, and found the Widow Chaffinch still caring for the orphans in her motherly way.
Mrs. Chaffinch declared she would be delighted to become a mother to the little goldfinches, and rear them properly.
There is a chaffinch for every tree, and a rook and a starling for every square rod of ground.
I heard the cuckoo call, and the chaffinch sing, both of which I considered good omens.
Then, when I looked further in White, and found that he says the chaffinch ceases to sing the beginning of June, I took more courage, for I had that day heard the chaffinch also.
The chaffinch has far less melody and charm of song than some of our finches, notably our purple finch; but it is so abundant and so persistent in song that in quantity of music it far excels any singer we have.
Throughout the month of May, and probably during all the spring months, the chaffinch makes two thirds of the music that ordinarily greets the ear as one walks or drives about the country.
Next to the chaffinch in the volume of its song, and perhaps in some localities surpassing it, is the song-thrush.
It seemed almost death-like for the moment, till, from the top of a larch, a chaffinch bubbled forth.
The male chaffinch is another very gay little fellow, with his warm red and pretty blue and yellow.
Whether the cuckoo or the chaffinch most Do triumph in the issuing of their song?
When Gracious saw her Chaffinch in such great peril, she fainted, and he also lost his senses.
Little Chaffinch heroically threw himself in the way of the horses, held his shepherd's staff before them, and thundered out with his feeble voice, "Wretches!
The subjects of Koloquintius were absolved from the oath they had sworn to him, and acknowledged Prince Chaffinchas their lawful monarch.
By this time Koloquintius arrived; but he no sooner saw Prince Chaffinch than he likewise lost his giant form and strength, and became not merely a little child like the others, but a very little dwarf, with crooked legs.
The chaffinch flew into the garden, and she jumped out of the window, which fortunately was on the ground-floor; but such was her anxiety that she would have sprung out, had it been on the fourth story.
But," continued the queen, "consider that the outfit of the other princes very much exhausted our coffers, and that just at present we have not the means wherewith to send out Chaffinch in a style befitting his rank.
Prince Chaffinch was very glad that he had received such a clever little dog from the fairy, for it did all his business for him, whilst he kept his eyes constantly fixed on the tower.
At these words, the light and the fairy disappeared, and Chaffinch sat in such darkness that he could not see his hand when he held it before his eyes.
To as many as he could catch, Chaffinch gave sugar-plums, whereupon they immediately swore to obey him.
The Chaffinch was outlined, daubed with water-colors, and nearly finished when we were interrupted by callers, Dr.
As soon as possible a male Chaffinch was procured, and I sat to draw it to give an idea of what Mrs. Gregg calls "my style.
Both Murray and Mr. Chaffinch raised their heads with an air of surprise.
On the continent of Europe the chaffinch is a favourite song-bird, especially in Germany, where great attention is paid to its training.
The chaffinch breeds early in the season, and its song may often be heard in February.
Every four or five minutes a chaffinch sings close by, and another fills the interval near the gateway.
The chaffinch appears to be called "woodfinch," at least the chaffinch answered nearest to the bird described to me as a "woodfinch.
If the sun shines to-morrow morning the lark will soar and sing, though it is January, and the quick note of the chaffinch will be heard as he perches on the little branches projecting from the trunks of trees below the great boughs.
At the town of Armentieres, in France, there is a fete du pays, in which the chaffinch and its fellows are the chief actors and objects of attraction.
When the chaffinch says "weet, weet," it is an infallible sign of rain.
Against boys and other predatory creatures the device succeeds admirably, and the chaffinch as a species flourishes vigorously.
The chaffinch is by far the most abundant bird of our fields and woods; and there is one good reason why it should be so.
And why are the chaffinch and bullfinch so still, While the sulphur primroses bedeck the wood hill?
The chaffinch chirruped on the thorn, And a pretty nest had she; The magpie chattered all the morn From her perch upon the tree.
If a siskin or a chaffinch could have spoken, and had begun declaring that it would peck another bird to death, it would not have reduced me to greater amazement than did Ivan at that moment.
A chaffinch actually did chirp in response from a mountain ash near.
I half fear, from the specimen I have seen of Masaniello, that my little mare runs a poor chance; but Chaffinch will give you work for it--Groggyboy was a crack horse in his day.
The big day was over, and the old cock-pheasant was alone with the melancholy song of a single robin, and a chaffinch calling "Chink!
Goodness knows where she was going, but not far, probably; and the largest thing in the bird line she appeared able to tackle was something of the chaffinch size.
A cock-chaffinch up in the limes saw her, and condescending at last to break his song, described a flashing streak of wine-red breast and white wing-bars in the sun.
A cock-chaffinch and a hen-chaffinch were perched on two twigs higher up, and were peering down at the grappling maniacs.
It was really the hen-chaffinch who found the bread, and he who commandeered it from her.
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