How to Identify Chaffinch Song - Episode 6 of Birdsong Lessons with Lucy Lapwing
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- How to identify the song of the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
British Birdsong Lessons with Lucy Lapwing. Episode 6: Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
Learn how to identify descending and catchy song of the chaffinch.
Thank you to Tony Whitehead for his recording.
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These videos are great! So useful and enjoyable to watch. Thank you for making and posting them.
I love the way you call us, your loyal subscribers, as nerds. Because we are!
Haha I'm glad - it's definitely meant as a compliment!
I’m definitely a proud nerd.
I learned the chaffinch as sounding like the run up and throw of a cricket bowler - gradual acceleration followed by flourish. Agree it's one of the easiest to recognise.
Excellent - I hadn't heard this before but it makes sense, even though I know nothing about cricket!
I was a big fan of your Birdsong of the Day series on Instagram Lucy so I'm delighted to see it continue in this form.
For me it's always the mental image method that works best and I was told that the more outrageous/ unusual/ unbelievable you can make it, the easier it is to remember. Your image of a wind-up little wren losing control is a perfect example of that!
For the chaffinch, I picture a chaffinch canoeing down the waterfall and blowing a raspberry at the end to all those who thought he wouldn't make it! .... Works for me!
Thank you so much for this. A REALLY helpful way to remember.
Loving these!
Thank you Jo!
We think that instead of a raspberry at the end, the chaffinch is spitting out the water.
Love your videos!
I like to imagine the chaffinch is singing "heyheyheyheyheyhey, geddout mah house!"
Hello Lucy, loving these, after watching your one on wrens I managed to identify one this morning! Could you do one for black caps? It would be so great! Thank you!
Yeah I think of it like a waterfall with a flourish to finish, as if splashing into the pool at the bottom. For Willow Warbler I think more of a leaf descending from a tree, it’s a bit more side to side falling if you know what I mean?
Haha I do know what you mean! I think willow warblers are so smooth, and almost liquid - their song is one of my favourites!
Someone once described it to me as a fast bowler , taking the run up and letting go of the cricket ball!
Yes, Lynn above has just described it the same way - love it!
Very nice way of describing it
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Hi Lucy, these are really helpful,Thank you! Will there be any more?
Thanks so much Danny! There will be indeed. This weekend and then a couple more next week! 😊
I've just learned that the chaffinch has an alternative song, which is a very repetitive, spaced "feep" tweet. Like it is trying to sound like the world's most boring sparrow!
Thank you🙂 I'm so enjoying these!
Thanks so much Catherine!
While I am fishing at my local pond I hear. All the time chatter chatter chatter we do I searched for bird songs and found that it was the chaffinch I hear a chatter chatter chatter WE DO ‘
I think it sounds like the Willow warbler but with lower notes.
I've always thought the same.
Yes me too - a willow warbler is like a smoother, more liquid song to me, and it misses the flourish at the end!
You are funny
I've been trying to identify a little bird that sounded off at the same times every day, from a tree outside my house. I think the Chaffinch call is the closest so far. It goes like: Twit...twit...twittY.
Twit...twit...twittY TITTY.
On repeat. Sometimes it would pause before the last 'twitty titty' and the end of each phrase (in caps) is slightly higher pitched. Am I even close with my guess?🙃
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