Black Chaffinch in dreams
A common, cheerful bird — pleasure taken in the unspectacular.
How black changes the reading
Black colour pulls the symbol toward the not-yet-known — depth, hiddenness, the part of the situation that has not yet come into the light. The dream is rarely warning you; it is showing you that there is more to the picture than the part you have been looking at.
The base reading of Chaffinch
A chaffinch in a dream is the dream's image of a small satisfaction that is not asking to be remarkable. It points to the modest, easily-overlooked pleasures that actually keep a life livable — the morning routine, the familiar walk, the ordinary friendship. A chaffinch close to the dreamer is the dream saying that what you have is enough, and that the search for something showier may be the wrong search. A chaffinch driven off by a larger bird is the dream marking that you have let an ambition crowd out a simpler good.