Small European finch with a cheerful song.
1 I was astonished to see him back; so, apparently, was the chaffinch .
2 This spring a chaffinch built a nest in one of my yew-trees.
3 A chaffinch clung to the bough, and swung to and fro singing.
4 He had, besides canaries, the thrush, chaffinch , linnet, goldfinch and cirl bunting.
5 The chaffinch was very much in evidence, continually chaunting its unimportant little ditty.
6 How curious is the structure of the nest of the goldfinch or chaffinch !
7 The chaffinch , I think, is the commonest bird in this part of the country.
8 A chaffinch robs a car (the last two might not be true).
9 A solitary male chaffinch keeps flying at our bedroom window and pecking the glass.
10 The chaffinch gave a light chirp, as if to recall him to his duty.
11 A female chaffinch had flown into a window and died.
12 Don't you see this little chaffinch nest in the bush, with a newly hatched brood.
13 A chaffinch came hopping along, picked up a seed, looked around him, and flew away.
14 Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away!
15 While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
16 A chaffinch (now called Bill) who comes to my garden for birdseed is extraordinarily tame.
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