Then there is the group of serins (Serinus), to which the canary belongs, that one is in doubt whether to refer to the vicinity of the greenfinches or that of the redpolls.
The dealers would only take a few, and they were worth nothing--no more than greenfinches and yellow-hammers.
But now when I listened to the greenfinches in the village elms and hedgerows, if by chance a few sparrows burst out in loud gratulatory notes, the sounds they emitted appeared coarse, and I wished the chirrupers away.
A flock of greenfinches starts from the bushes, and their colour shows against the ruddy wands of the osier-bed over which they fly.
Sweetly the greenfinches were calling in the trees: afar the voice of the cuckoo came over the oaks.
In summer the leaves of the aspen rustled pleasantly, there was the tinkle of falling water over a hatch, thrushes sang and blackbirds whistled, greenfinches laughed in their talk to each other.
The grasshoppers called and leaped, the greenfinches sang, the blackbirds happily fluted, all the air hummed with life.
Bees buzzed over me, sometimes a butterfly passed, there was a hum in the air, greenfinches sang in the hedge.
All the whilegreenfinches are singing happily in the trees without the wall.
Greenfinches in the elms never cease love-making; and love-making needs much soft talking.
Sparrows crowd every hedge and field, their numbers are incredible; chaffinches are not to be counted; of greenfinches there must be thousands.
Along the edge of the roadside footpath, where the dandelions, plantains, and grasses are thick with seed, the greenfinches come down and feed.
At our approach, two brilliant greenfinches alone took flight with a beautiful flash of apple-green wings, and vanished into the recesses of the great walnut tree.
He then peered round his heap of grass, but there were no greenfinches near; they had come out from the hedges, and the starling had come from the hollow pollard where he had a nest, but all had settled a long way off from his hiding-place.
But I am not sure you can hit him with your arrow; don't you remember that you could not hit the greenfinches nor the rook?
Along the edge of the path, where the dandelions and plantains are thick with seed, the greenfinches will come down and select those they like best: this they often do by the footpath beside the road.
Greenfinches in the elms never cease love-making, and love-making needs much soft talking.
If on a summer's morning you go and sit in the gateway about half-way up the hedge, partly hidden by a pollard ash and great hawthorn bushes, you will not have long to wait before you hear the pleasant calls of the greenfinches coming.
The greenfinchesflew from tree to tree in parties of four, six, or more, calling to each other in their happy confidential way.
One of the greenfinches is again attacking the cones, and I can now see the way he does it more plainly.
The greenfinches never hammered, but only bit and tugged at the clubs of the cones.
Gradually they spread out a little from the heap, half-a-dozen greenfinches are amongst the straw that one has oneself pulled out from the stack, and one of them is feeding positively within three feet.
Thrushes sang, and chaffinches, and, sweetest of all, if simplest in notes, the greenfinches talked and courted in the trees.
Happy greenfinches go by, and it is curious to note how the instant they enter the hedge they are lost now under the leaves; so few days ago they would have been unconcealed.
Bees buzzed over, sometimes a butterfly passed, there was a hum in the air, greenfinches sang in the hedge.
The greenfinches sank into the fallen swathe, the loose grass gave under their weight and let them bathe in flowers.
The greenfinches came to the fallen swathe so near to us they seemed to have no fear; but I remember the yellowhammers most, whose colour, like that of the wild flowers and the sky, has never faded from my memory.
When he listened to the greenfinches sweetly calling in the hawthorn, or when he read his books, poring over the Odyssey, with the sunshine on the wall, they were always there; there was no severance.
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