But there is neither sight nor sound of a chiffchaff. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A short car tour and a lengthy walk turn up not even a fleeting glimpse of a wheatear's white rump, and so we set off for Airidh nam Ban in the hope of at least hearing a chiffchaff among the trees there even if we don't see one. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Yellow buttercups and blue speedwells in the grass, leaves eager with fresh rain in trees above; chiffchaff and blackcap singing; she was not dead yet. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Others contributing to the soundtrack include the goldcrest, blackbird, thrush, chiffchaff, wren, mallard, coot and even the garden bully, the wood pigeon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By July, the dawn chorus is virtually silent compared with the cacophony of spring but a chiffchaff still sounded in the distance. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified); ❋ Unknown (2010)
• You'll mainly hear song thrush and chiffchaff from around 2:14 onwards. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They greeted me with warmth, and soon Dulcis began to chatter like a chiffchaff about a new suitor, and I was wholeheartedly grateful that she was more interested in herself than me. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)
Next to me in the hut, the tax inspector takes down a bag and reaches inside, pulling out a dead chiffchaff, a slight and pale green warbler, its head lolling loosely over his fingers. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
In the warm August sunshine another chiffchaff is singing from the line of ash trees above the hedge. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
The chiffchaff has been heard in Hampshire and a couple of road-peckers were observed last week hovering in the neighbourhood of Wellington Street. ❋ Various (N/A)
When you find the first blue egg in the shrubbery behind your billet in Artois; when the G.S. O. 2 comes into the mess with a violet in his fingers, and shows it to every doubter, then you know the time has come for the testing of the gas cylinders, and you wonder whether this is the last time you will be noteworthy because you had the earliest news of the chiffchaff. ❋ Unknown (1915)
It is a sulphur butterfly, who thus comes before the earliest chiffchaff -- before the watch begins for the first swallow. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
That the titlarks are singing I know, but not within hearing from here; a dove, though, is audible, and a chiffchaff has twice passed. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
They manage without me very well; they know their times and seasons -- not only the civilised rooks, with their libraries of knowledge in their old nests of reference, but the stray things of the hedge and the chiffchaff from over sea in the ash wood. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
The chiffchaff uttered his clear yet rather sad notes on April 26. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
At last, in the middle of September, the chiffchaff, too, is silent. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
