Meanings of chiffchaff in английском

The chiffchaff uttered his clear yet rather sad notes on April 26.

At last, in the middle of September, the chiffchaff, too, is silent.

The songs of chiffchaff, blackcap and crickets play out with distant skylarks.

It is as though the chiffchaff were the first sketch of a willow-wren.

But there is neither sight nor sound of a chiffchaff.

Even this elusive chiffchaff seemed willing to be on film.

A few years ago I heard my first chiffchaff for the season in the Alice Holt Forest.

The first swallow they looked for, and never missed; but they neither heard nor saw the chiffchaff.

He notes such features as rookeries, celandine banks, clumps of elms and gorse patches, and each chiffchaff heard.

When he wrote about a chiffchaff's nest he did not mean all nests, or the idea of nests.

It is a sulphur butterfly, who thus comes before the earliest chiffchaff-beforethe watch begins for the first swallow.

A chiffchaff struggles to synchronise his two-beat song in sallow willows opposite the cooling towers in Dale End Park.

Here, there is a nipple-stiffening east wind, a pincushion-bright sky and the pipingly optimistic voice of a chiffchaff round the corner.

The chiffchaff has been heard in Hampshire and a couple of road-peckers were observed last week hovering in the neighbourhood of Wellington Street.

Only a very few days since-itdoes not seem a week-therewas a chiffchaff calling in a copse as merrily as in the spring.

That the titlarks are singing I know, but not within hearing from here; a dove, though, is audible, and a chiffchaff has twice passed.