In this silent season the robin, the wood-pigeon, and the Greenfinch, seem the only birds whose notes are at all common: the pigeons call in the evening as they come to the copse, the Greenfinches in a hushed kind of way talk to each other in the hedge, and the robin plaintively utters a few notes on the tree.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
They could listen to the Greenfinch calling sweetly from the hawthorn hedge, while tree-creepers ran like mice up the gray bark and woodpeckers flirted in the grass.
"Carnival"
Compton Mackenzie
Only Greenfinch, the slender nimble little goat, was brave enough to face him, and would make a rush at him, three or four times in succession, with such agility and dexterity, that the great Turk often stood still quite astounded not venturing to attack her again, for Greenfinch was fronting him, prepared for more warlike action, and her horns were sharp.
"Heidi"
Johanna Spyri