Chaffinch
£25.00
A lot of lies about chaffinches, from the ‘Lies About Birds’ series. (Scroll down to read the text.) Illustrated with a poor photograph of a paper bird I have made out of old RSPB magazines.
A4 print, mounted (and put in a cellophane bag to prevent escapes).
(Please note that, regretfully, I don’t send work outside of the UK.)
1 in stock
“A male chaffinch launches into song in every part of the UK on the first day of February. It is the law. If chaffinches didn’t announce the start of February then January would go on forever. Chaffinches are the Music Hall comics of the garden, performing silly walks, regional accents, and innuendo-laden raising and lowering of their crests. Their fast-moving, tiny pink feet might be tap-dancing but it’s hard to tell. They like practical jokes. Their favourite is to make the ‘fly now’ call just when a small flock of chaffinches have settled down to a meal under your bird feeder, causing them all to boing off the ground into nearby bushes. The one that made them jump then says ‘pink’ and they all know they’ve been had. You will hear that sharp ‘pink’ sound – the sound of a chaffinch being pranked – all over the garden all day. You’d think they’d get fed up but that’s chaffinches, they just love a good, old fashioned, joke.”
