Page- Book review: “A Passion for Natural History”

Posted on 12/05/2019 by Huw Evans Leave a comment

“. . . and when I saw him on his knees, having spread my drawings on the floor, the better to compare them, I forgot he was Lord Stanley, I knew only that he too loved Nature.” John James Audubon (1)... Read More

Problems, problems

Posted on 20/04/201921/04/2019 by Huw Evans 2 Comments

Many thanks to Mariya, Krasen and Vasil at tsoHost for sorting out the problem with the website over Easter weekend. Impressive service. tsoHost also enabled SSL for the site to improve security (you will see a padlock in the top bar). If anyone is still having trouble loading Fine Spangled Sort it may because you have […]... Read More

Liege 2018- Best silver @ Liege 2019-FSS

The judges judged

Posted on 09/04/2019 by Huw Evans 3 Comments

“Each of us is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” James R. Schlesinger (1)... Read More

Lizard canary basics, Part 16: the magic of rowings

Posted on 26/02/2019 by Huw Evans 8 Comments

“Controversy is not seldom excited in consequence of the disputants attaching each a different meaning to the same word.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1)... Read More

Six of the best

Posted on 16/02/201913/02/2019 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

David Newton keeps a small stud of Lizard canaries; normally just six pairs of birds. His focus is on quality, not quantity.... Read More

World show: gallery 2

Posted on 12/02/201912/02/2019 by Huw Evans 1 Comment

The original intention of this post was to display a second gallery of photographs taken by Joe Coakley of the Lizards at the 2019 World Show. Anyone who has read Joe’s critique in Part 1 will know that some of the judges’ decisions were very controversial.... Read More

World Show 2019: a Dutch trait

Posted on 08/02/2019 by Huw Evans 8 Comments

My visit to the World Show had a different focus this year. My priority was to present the London Fancy show standard, which took place on the first weekend of the show. I didn’t stay to view the Lizards, but I knew a man whom I could trust to give an honest and comprehensive review […]... Read More

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The London Fancy and the Lizard canary . . . for those who are very curious