A flock of some thirty Yellow Buntings, Greenfinches, and Chaffinches were feeding in one corner of a field which had recently been sown with barley.
Hen Chaffinches become so absorbed that they fall to the ground and there continue the struggle.
Here Yellow Buntings, Greenfinches, andChaffinches collect from the surrounding neighbourhood.
One thing peculiar to chaffinches is the necessity of teaching them their song every year, and this in the manner proper for them, during the four or five weeks this exercise lasts.
Chaffinches that have been reared with care become very familiar, and sing at command, or when one approaches their cage in a friendly manner.
There have been examples of chaffinches pairing with female canaries, and it has been said with a female yellowhammer.
Some chaffinches have two, three, four, and even five different battemens, each consisting of several strains, and lasting several minutes.
This is the reason why the chaffinches in this province are so indifferent songsters: the young ones have only bad masters in the old ones, and they in their turn cannot prove better.
The singing season does not generally extend beyond June, but young chaffinches brought up in a room prolong it to October, and sometimes later.
The notes of the wild chaffinches in this country are finer than any cage ones I have heard in Germany.
There is no distinction between the wood chaffinches and those of the gardens and orchards, as has been alleged.
By these means chaffinches that have been taken full grown have forgotten their former song and adopted a better.
The distinction between wood and garden chaffinches is unfounded, at least as to species; the eggs of both are of the same whitish pink colour.
Chaffinches are very rare now which sing this, united to that of the wine song of Ruhl, or the sharp song, and their price is consequently high.
These are heard sometimes in the woods and orchards; but chaffinches that sing a or b soon become the prey of our bird-catchers.
There are willow saplings all round, and the chaffinches were collecting the down for nest-lining, for the seeds were ripening.
When the young chaffinches are fledged, their parents lead them from the nest.
As soon as he spoke, the baby chaffinches stretched out their slender little necks, opened their wide, gaping mouths, and cried for food.
They wanted to stay the whole afternoon and watch the chaffinches feeding their young, but their uncle would not allow this.
The chaffinchescalled cheerfully on the plum-trees and sang in the early morning.
For under the shadowy elms a little seed or grain had jolted down through the chinks in the bed of a passing waggon, and there the chaffinches and sparrows had congregated.
Sparrows crowd every hedge and field, their numbers are incredible; chaffinches are not to be counted; of greenfinches there must be thousands.
Chaffinches call and challenge continually--these trees are their favourite resort--and yellowhammers flit along the underwood.
Chaffinches with flashing prelude of silver wings flourished a burst of song that broke as with too intolerable a triumph: then sought another tree and poured forth the triumphant song again.
This is specially the case with Chaffinches and Bramblings: Greenfinches abrade later.
By the end of the month much song has ceased, Tree Pipits and Chaffinches especially becoming mute.
A cloud of chaffinches cleared the abyss, and hundreds of buzzards and hawks fought above them in their rapid flight, uttering loud screams to terrify their prey, while the mass seemed stationary, so dense was it.
That is the departure of the chaffinches of the Ardennes," said Hullin.
Victoria Park was the only accessible place to most of the East-enders who keep chaffinches for singing-matches and for profit, to which their birds could be taken to get the necessary practice.
Chaffinches are found in winter in several of the open spaces where they do not breed, and among other species to be found wintering in the quiet green spots in small numbers are linnets, goldfinches, pipits, and the pied wagtail.
Last spring, 1897, a few chaffinches returned, and their welcome song was heard in Kensington Gardens until June.
Thrushes, blackbirds, and chaffinchesare still not uncommon.
Clearly these New Zealand chaffinches were at a loss for a design when fabricating their nest.
Mr. Charles Dixon has recorded a remarkable change in the mode of nest-building of some common chaffinches which were taken to New Zealand and turned out there.
There are doubtless many home internal migrations within this kingdom that want to be better understood: witness those vast flocks of hen-chaffinches that appear with us in the winter without hardly any cocks among them.
For many years past I have observed that towards Christmas vast flocks of chaffinches have appeared in the fields; many more, I used to think, than could be hatched in any one neighbourhood.
We have vast flocks of female chaffinches all the winter, with hardly any males among them.
For this matter of the chaffinches see "Fauna Suecica," p.
Our flocks of female chaffinches have not yet forsaken us.
This extraordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnaeus, that "before winter all their hen chaffinches migrate through Holland into Italy.
This alone proves that cock chaffinches are very numerous in spring.
So that, although but low and small in comparison with the copse-like hedges of the vale, the hawthorn here is often alive with birds: chaffinches and sparrows perhaps in the greatest numbers, also yellowhammers.
Where, then, are they in winter, if the flocks of chaffinches at that period consist almost exclusively of female birds?
There were no chaffinches in the elms or in the road, and scarcely a sparrow; not a yellowhammer on the hedge by the cornfield; only a very few greenfinches; not a single bullfinch or goldfinch.
Male chaffinches are rarely seen: they have migrated, or in some other manner disappeared.
It has been stated that the flocks of chaffinches which may be seen in winter consist entirely of females.
Now this man said that these chaffinches sold for 6 shillings the dozen, and that when the birds were `on,' as he called it, he could catch five dozen a day.
Thither fly the chaffinches too, and the grave-faced oriole, the pretty bullfinch, and the chattering cock-sparrow.
The chaffinches were jubilant, the parents disconsolate.
Just think," said the mother, "those odious chaffinchespositively forced us to leave the neighbourhood.
They were as merry and happy as if they had really been a pair of chaffinches in a nest in one of the pear-trees.
And chaffinches to kiss chaffinches," added Tchink, determined not to be left out.
The naturalists tell us that these winter companies ofchaffinches are usually composed of birds of one sex only, the males consorting together for the time as in a boys' school.
It seems that among the chaffinches the male is the more spiritual of the sexes.
In the spring of 1900 the grass was covered for many days together with some kind of little black fly, and sparrows a dozen or so at a time with blackbirds, thrushes and chaffinches found a continual feast in them.
The Chaffinchesare regarded as the type-form of Fringillidae.
There are doubtless many home internal migrations within this kingdom that want to be better understood: witness those vast flocks of hen chaffinches that appear with us in the winter without hardly any cocks among them.
For this matter of the chaffinches see Fauna Suecica, p.
This extraordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnaeus; that 'before winter, all their hen chaffinchesmigrate through Holland into Italy.
Hen chaffinches seem particularly jealous of each other in this respect.
Such fights as these are usually between two male birds, but hen chaffinches sometimes fight, whilst scuffles between a cock and a hen over food may also be witnessed.
Several chaffinches came up as though to peck at it, but their courage failed them at the last moment, and it was never touched the whole time I was there.
Occasionally a pair may be seen feeding with Sparrows and Chaffinches in the farmyard; but this society seems one of accident rather than of choice.
In some parts of Holland and the north of France, the passion for song Chaffinches amounts to a frenzy.
After all, Bechstein's translator says that the notes of the wild Chaffinches in England are finer than any cage ones he has heard in Germany.
Chaffinches were calling from the tops of the trees; the chaffinches now have a note much like one used by the yellow-hammer, different from their song and from their common 'fink tink.
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