While the chaffinch there sitting is trying to sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

Another bird who starts to sing in February is the chaffinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

The chaffinch is best heard in isolation at between 1:49-1:51.    From Wordnik.com.  [Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species] Reference

The chaffinch gave a light chirp, as if to recall him to his duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

A chaffinch actually did chirp in response from a mountain ash near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punin and Baburin] Reference

This bird is a chaffinch, which a friend had brought over from France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917] Reference

How curious is the structure of the nest of the goldfinch or chaffinch!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

• Two different species seem to be competing, the chaffinch and wren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species] Reference

I am no longer a man; I am a chaffinch; all the joys of spring recur to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

This latter bird is somewhat bigger than the chaffinch, and is mottled in appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

These belong to the chaffinch; they, you see, are greenish-purple spotted with brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.] Reference

The fuse-wire-thin goldcrest calls, a single curtailed pink of a chaffinch, and my breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

I would feel if enclosed by the walls of a city as a chaffinch would feel in the craw of a hawk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pixy's Holiday Journey] Reference

It's a wren that kicks off proceedings at around 1:38 but again the chaffinch interrupts at 1:40.    From Wordnik.com.  [Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species] Reference

While it's a chaffinch that begins to sing at around 1:26 it's the wren that carries on up to 1:30.    From Wordnik.com.  [Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species] Reference

All the flower colours here come from green, as do the songs of willow warbler, chaffinch and skylark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference

The housesparrow is the most popular bird although in my garden the bird I spotted most was the chaffinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Results of the Big Garden Birdwatch « Fairegarden] Reference

Others feed on grubs, such as the chaffinch, the sparrow, the ‘batis’, the green linnet, and the titmouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

It is comparatively common in Nisyros, and is somewhat less than the owsel and a little bigger than the chaffinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

This is the molecular reason for a frog looking different from a chaffinch and a hare being able to run faster than a hedgehog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Sometimes pipes a chaffinch; loose droops the blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

I was astonished to see him back; so, apparently, was the chaffinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afoot in England] Reference

I have been in England, and came here again as lively as a chaffinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louise de la Valliere] Reference

This bird is about the size of a chaffinch, and was first killed by me on the Darling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference

There is no one to talk to except a chaffinch, who thinks of nothing but his appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916] Reference

To her, who took no sides, there was every bit as much to be said for the hawk as for the chaffinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Age] Reference

Every four or five minutes a chaffinch sings close by, and another fills the interval near the gateway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

Geospiza, from one as large as that of a hawfinch to that of a chaffinch, and even to that of a warbler?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog] Reference

The hedge-sparrow, the chaffinch and the goldfinch have flourished abundantly, but the linnet has failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference

The owl looked at the crow, and the crow scowled at the chaffinch, who turned his back on him, being very saucy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood Magic A Fable] Reference

In a minute or two another chaffinch came to the elm in the hedge just outside the garden, and quite close to the ash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood Magic A Fable] Reference

But scarcely had he woven it into the nest than down flew the second chaffinch from the elm into the shadow of the ash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood Magic A Fable] Reference

"It falls upon you, as the oldest of the party, to give him his commands," said Tchink, the chaffinch, addressing the owl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood Magic A Fable] Reference

But aside from a chaffinch or so and a brown-and-white spotted calf tied to a tree, the grove was empty -- blatantly empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Junior] Reference

But aside from a chaffinch or so and a brown and white spotted calf tied to a tree, the grove was empty -- blatantly empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry] Reference