But there is neither sight nor sound of a chiffchaff. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: South Uist] Reference
• You'll mainly hear song thrush and chiffchaff from around 2:14 onwards. From Wordnik.com. [Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species] Reference
In the warm August sunshine another chiffchaff is singing from the line of ash trees above the hedge. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
By July, the dawn chorus is virtually silent compared with the cacophony of spring but a chiffchaff still sounded in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [How to get back to nature when camping] Reference
The chiffchaff has been heard in Hampshire and a couple of road-peckers were observed last week hovering in the neighbourhood of Wellington Street. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20] Reference
Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified). From Wordnik.com. [How to get back to nature when camping] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: South Uist] Reference
The chiffchaff uttered his clear yet rather sad notes on April 26. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
At last, in the middle of September, the chiffchaff, too, is silent. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
The first swallow they looked for, and never missed; but they neither heard nor saw the chiffchaff. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
JoyJoy Bean (76 posts) on January 15, 2009 - 9: 25am. chiffchaff (8 posts) on January 15, 2009 - 9: 26am. From Wordnik.com. [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference
It is a sulphur butterfly, who thus comes before the earliest chiffchaff -- before the watch begins for the first swallow. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
That the titlarks are singing I know, but not within hearing from here; a dove, though, is audible, and a chiffchaff has twice passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
High in a lime tree, hidden from view by the leaves, a chiffchaff sings continually, and from the distance comes the softer note of a thrush. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
Sunshine and warmth speed up the onset of spring and coincide with the songs of blackcap and chiffchaff, seeking insects around catkins of willow and returning to nest in the. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Baltimore garden events ?ro" March 27 and 28, 2010] Reference
Although several species of migrants, such as the blackcap and chiffchaff, are adapting the timing of their arrival to fit in with earlier springs, it seems that swifts are not. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference
It is curious that, though singled out as a first sign of spring, the chiffchaff has never entered into the home life of the people like the robin, the swallow, or even the sparrow. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
When chiffchaff and willow-wren first come they remain in the treetops, but in the summer descend into the lower bushes, and, like the nightingales, come out upon the sward by the wayside. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
February; last spring the chiffchaff sang soon after the flowering of the lesser celandine (not in this hedge, but near by), and the first swift was noticed within a day or two of the opening of the May bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
From lemon-flavoured daisies to peppery pink dianthus, edible flowers are more than just decoration Sunshine and warmth speed up the onset of spring and coincide with the songs of blackcap and chiffchaff, seeking insects around catkins of willow and returning to nest in the. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Baltimore garden events ?ro" March 27 and 28, 2010] Reference
He can hardly keep up his race here in England; and is accordingly very uncommon, while his two cousins, the willow wren and the chiffchaff, who, like him, build for some mysterious reason domed nests upon the ground, are stout, and busy, and numerous, and thriving everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for Daylight] Reference
A chiffchaff calling in a copse as merrily as in the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
I am relieved the chiffchaff isn’t my bird and didn’t die in my hands. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
I’ll teach you bed minners, tip for tap, to be playing your oddaugghter tangotricks with micky dazzlers if I find corsehairs on your river-frock and the squirmside of your burberry lupitally covered with chiffchaff and shavings. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Windyflowers when the chiffchaff flies home. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919] Reference
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