Birds such as chaffinches are also responding to higher temperatures ❋ BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition (2010)
Two robins are engaged in a musical duel, chaffinches flit from branch to branch plinking and chinking constantly. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Within a couple of minutes there were great tits, blue tits and chaffinches all round me and all inquisitive. ❋ Unknown (2011)
They were at once confidently identified by my companions: chaffinches, reed buntings and yellowhammers but no tree sparrows, although between 15 and 25 are now resident in this wetland, brought back by the establishment of the Cary Marsh nature reserve. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A few weeks ago, a flock of chaffinches came down to pick the ground clean of its seedy harvest. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Our blue tits and chaffinches are perfectly happy in the countryside at the moment. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Their absence has triggered a flurry of letters and emails to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from anxious householders disconcerted by the absence of blue tits, greenfinches, chaffinches and house sparrows from suburban Britain. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Blackbirds, thrushes and chaffinches will all have nesting sites in the hedgerows. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Rowan nods, knowing he could never tell her he has only ever heard birdsong online, or that he and Clara once spent a good hour watching video footage of chirping sedge warblers and chaffinches, nearly in tears. ❋ Matt Haig (2010)
A thrush was singing madly on a hazel tree, with two chaffinches calling 'pink-pink' every time he stopped. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By now the more melodic music of the other birds had found its rhythm and built into full flow: the soft cooing of wood-pigeons, the lyrical blackcaps and lesser whitethroats, the piping of robins and wrens, chiffchaffs and the confident glissando of the chaffinches. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
Also a young robin, a fledgeling great-tit being given a lesson in how to work bird feeders by a harrassed-looking parent, a couple of adolescent blackbirds from the parents' first brood I think they are now feeding nestlings on their second, and a noisy family of chaffinches. ❋ Carla (2009)
Among the brightly coloured species most affected were orioles, blackbirds and blue tits, while drab species like tree pipits, coal tits and chaffinches were much less affected. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The local robins have been singing to guard their territories all winter, of course, but over the last couple of days I've heard them joined by blackbirds, great tits, chaffinches, skylarks and a small brown stripey bird that I think was a dunnock, all proclaiming, "This is my bit, come and set up home with me!" ❋ Carla (2008)
