LCA Classic 2024 4th Best Champ (AM)-FSS

The LCA Classic 2024

Posted on 10/11/2024 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

This year’s LCA Classic brought a few changes. I was judging rather than showing; and there was a new timetable aimed at enabling exhibitors to view the birds much earlier than in recent years. I can’t speak for my judging, but the latter was a big success. Some things didn’t change though: the friendly atmosphere, […]... Read More

National 2024-R & I Wrights Non cap silver hen Best Lizard-FSS

National 2024-Nick Raysons Best Novice Lizard-FSS

National 2024-Toby Ashpole winning CCSC, Best Junior Lizard & Best Junior in show-FSS

National 2024-Noel Sidneys Best Natural and 2nd Best Lizard-FSS

National 2024-Best Novice Natural Mike Tiffany-FSS

National 2024-Toby Ashpole with his Best Junior trophy-FSS

The National Exhibition 2024

Posted on 24/10/2024 by Huw Evans 2 Comments

I missed the National Exhibition again this year but fortunately Andy Beesley, the Secretary of the Lizard canary section, recorded the event and sent me judge Chris Jordan’s report: “The show season started again at Stafford with the English National Exhibition. There were 71 birds entered, of which 65 were on the show bench in […]... Read More

New COM Lizard Standard

Posted on 13/08/2024 by Huw Evans 5 Comments

A new COM Standard for the Lizard canary was approved at the OMJ congress held in Portugal this month. The proposal was prepared by the LCA and submitted by COM-UK. The most significant changes are: Features such as the eyelash and the lacings, that were omitted from the 2016 standard, have been restored. The Scale […]... Read More

Amigos 2023 getting ready for the prsntn-FSS

Amigos del Canario Lizard show 2023

Posted on 16/01/2024 by Huw Evans Leave a comment

I spent a very enjoyable weekend at El Prado at the end of October this year. You might recognise the name as home to one of the greatest exhibitions of art in the world. However the El Prado I visited was not the one in the centre of Madrid, but in Yuncler, about half an […]... Read More

Cassino, part 2: a visit to Domenico

Posted on 09/01/2024 by Huw Evans 4 Comments

I don’t suppose that many Lizard canary breeders would turn down an invitation to visit Domenico Mungiguerra. I certainly didn’t. He lives near Cassino, so this was a golden opportunity to see one of the best strains of Lizards in the world. Most of my readers will know that Domenico is having to rebuild […]... Read More

Cassino, Part 1: the Associazione Ornitologica Albatros

Posted on 03/01/2024 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

The last World Show I attended was at Matosinhos, Portugal in January 2020. I was there to give the second presentation on the London Fancy in our quest for the breed to be recognised by COM. One of the OMJ assessors came up to me after the presentation and asked if I would like […]... Read More

2022: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Posted on 28/12/202228/12/2022 by Huw Evans 9 Comments

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! Robert Burns ‘To a Mouse’, 1785 (1) It is commonly believed that breeding show canaries is a numbers game: you have more chance of producing winners if you breed 200 youngsters than if […]... Read More

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The London Fancy and the Lizard canary

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