Brian Hogg

Posted on 05/06/201907/06/2019 by Huw Evans 5 Comments

Many of you will have heard the sad news that Brian Hogg has died (1). I’m sure there will be many tributes to him in a forthcoming edition of Cage and Aviary Birds, but I wanted to add my own appreciation of Brian, one of the canary fancy’s great ambassadors.... Read More

LCA: the colour feeding rule

Posted on 03/06/2019 by Huw Evans 2 Comments

The results of the referendum on the colour feeding rule have been published on the LCA website.... Read More

Book review: “A Passion for Natural History”

Posted on 12/05/201910/07/2019 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