chur-chair-chark

Updated: July 14, 2026

However, he was not left there long in peace, for the birds of Greenlawn did not like such visitors; and the first notice they had of the stranger was from Specklems, the starling, who flew up into the tree, and then out again as though a wasp had stuck in his ear. "Chur-chair-chark," he shouted, flying round and round, spitting and sputtering, and making his head look like a hedgehog.

George Manville Fenn - Featherland: How the Birds lived at Greenlawn