It is curious that, though singled out as a first sign of spring, the chiffchaff has never entered into the home life of the people like the robin, the swallow, or even the sparrow.
Chiffchaff and willow-wren came as usual, but they did not arrive in a crowd at once.
Only a very few days since--it does not seem a week--there was a chiffchaffcalling in a copse as merrily as in the spring.
When chiffchaff and willow-wren first come they remain in the treetops, but in the summer descend into the lower bushes, and, like the nightingales, come out upon the sward by the wayside.
High in a lime tree, hidden from view by the leaves, a chiffchaff sings continually, and from the distance comes the softer note of a thrush.
But the Garden-Warbler is not the only bird that acts as a stimulus to the instinct of the Blackcap; Whitethroats are often attacked, and the Chiffchaff is a source of irritation.
A Chiffchaff occupied the corner of a small osier bed, and was particularly aggressive towards other closely-related forms in its immediate neighbourhood.
But this does not mean that the Chiffchaff suffers persecution; it is itself most aggressive, as is shown by the fact that it will join in the Blackcap quarrels and attack the combatants indiscriminately.
The chiffchaff uttered his clear yet rather sad notes on April 26.
There is no specimen of either theChiffchaff or Willow Wren in the Museum.
For three years in succession I have heard the first chiffchaff in exactly the same place--a clump of nut-trees on the top of a high bank.
It is as though the chiffchaff were the first sketch of a willow-wren.
The Chiffchaff also is an irregular singer during August.
The Wood Wren is the latest to arrive towards the end of April, and departs the earliest in autumn; the Willow Wren leaves us in September, the Chiffchaff not unfrequently lingering on into October.
It should be remarked that not only the Willow Wren but the Chiffchaffare not by any means confined to woods, but are equally common in gardens, orchards, hedgerows, and thickets.
In the north of England, as it is in the south, the Chiffchaff is perhaps the most constant pioneer of the spring migrants.
The first indication of our summer birds of passage is given by some venturesome Chiffchaff or Wheatear; the flocks of Lapwings are dispersing to their breeding-places; so too are the Mallards.
The littlechiffchaff was chiffchaffing in the pine woods.
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