Sing a song of sixpence
“Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, Oh wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the king?”... Read More
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David Newton 2019
My pictorial review of David Newton’s Lizard canaries is a perennial favourite, so I make no apologies for adding photos of his 2019 crop to my blog. David has the smallest stud of any of the world’s top breeders, usually just 6 pairs. His stud may be low in number, but it is high […]... Read More
LCA Classic 2019, part 2: a judging tutorial
My guest contributor this week is David Allen, who judged the Lizards at the LCA Classic. Here he explains how he went about his task and describes some of the finer details he looks for in the Lizard canary.... Read More
The Greatest Show on Earth?
Regular readers of this blog may remember my effusive account of the Club Amigos del Canario Lizard show which I published one year ago. That event attracted over 300 Lizard canaries plus the Ocelados (1). It was a memorable event. Could this year’s show improve on that remarkable gathering? Yes! I Show Nacional del Canario Lizard, […]... Read More
LCA Classic 2019
The LCA Classic returned after last year’s hiatus. There is a new team in charge and the reports I’ve received were favourable: “a friendly atmosphere”, “just like the good old days” etc. That is exactly the type of Classic that the team is trying to rebuild. ... Read More
Lizarddag 2019
My show season starts in earnest with my annual pilgrimage to Keyenborg (1) in Holland. It has, for many years, been the only specialist Lizard show that attracts an international entry. There were 207 birds on show, and true to form, the major prize winners came from Belgium, Holland and Great Britain.... Read More
London Fancies at the National Exhibition 2019
Thirty birds entered, 22 benched. It doesn’t sound much, but 20 years ago I’d never have believed that any London Fancies would have been exhibited at all, yet here they were, and so was I to judge them. Better still, many of the over-year birds looked like the real thing: almost clear bodies with dark […]... Read More