The Guardian made music: 'found' sounds and food, chiffchaffs and Labour contenders ❋ Unknown (2011)
The first wheatears have returned to the islands, and chiffchaffs and willow warblers are beginning to pass through on their spring journeys. ❋ Unknown (2011)
So thrilled am I by the boldness of the violets and the contrasting delicacy of the wood sorrel that the search for chiffchaffs has been almost forgotten, but as we leave the wood a hidden bird begins a tentative round of the familiar two-note song before lapsing back into silence. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The sweetness of robins and chiffchaffs descanted subtly from hazel or elder beneath the harsh, relentless chorus of the rooks in the ash-tops. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
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)
Almost all of the migrant reed warblers, chiffchaffs, blackcaps, and sedge warblers that we band are young. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
With one eye, my left, I saw the passing road: tall stalks of wandflower standing upright above a patch of snow, and a flock of chiffchaffs stripping the last berries from a rowan tree. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)
In any case, it was easy to love the evidence in my hands: the emargination of the sixth primary of chiffchaffs, the blue-gray of the moulted greater coverts of first-year great tits, the reddish iris color of adult dunnocks, the fat keels of sedge warblers. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
The bevies of chiffchaffs and willow wrens which came to the thickets in the furze, the chorus of thrushes and blackbirds, the chaffinches in the elms, the greenfinches in the hedges, wood-pigeons and turtle-doves in the copses, tree-pipits about the oaks in the cornfields; every bush, every tree, almost every clod, for the larks were so many, seemed to have its songster. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
First, as the spring began, came crowds of chiffchaffs and willow-wrens, filling the furze with ceaseless flutterings. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
Yesterday I saw the ploughman and his team, and the earth gleam smoothed behind the share; to-day a butterfly has gone past; the farm-folk are bringing home the fagots from the hedgerows; to-morrow there will be a merry, merry note in the ash copse, the chiffchaffs 'ringing call to arms, to arms, ye leaves! ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
The chiffchaffs arrived all at once, as it seemed, in a bevy, and took possession of every birch about the furze, calling incessantly with might and main. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
Just before then -- just as the first leaves are opening -- the chiffchaffs come. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
Wood pigeons and whitethroats recorded increases of more than 25 per cent, while populations of great spotted woodpeckers, gold crests, nuthatches, chiffchaffs and green woodpeckers have seen the worst falls - have gone up by at least 50 per cent. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Other residents include yellow hammers and long tailed tits, chiffchaffs, robins and black birds. ❋ Unknown (2010)
