Classic 2021 Best c-fed BCSC (IAdcock)-FSS

Classic 2021 3rd Best c-fed CCSH (IAdcock)

Classic 2021 4th Best nat CCSH (THorton)-FSS

Classic 2021 Jeremy Goacher with Robert Yates Shield-FSS

Classic 2021 Best Junior BCGH (TAshpole)-FI

LCA Classic 2021

Posted on 24/11/2021 by Huw Evans 3 Comments

It may be two years since the last Lizard Classic, but the LCA had put the time to good use. The show retained most of its tried and tested format, but there were innovations too. We had new staging; a much simpler two-tier assembly that is easier to store, transport and assemble than the […]... Read More

Club Amigos Del Canario Lizard show 2021

Posted on 13/11/2021 by Huw Evans Leave a comment

The 2021 Amigos show was held in Cartagena, a naval city just one hour’s drive from Alicante airport. We loved it; a city with a long history, some beautiful architecture, and free of the tourist tat that blights so many Spanish seaside resorts. My thanks to Jesús Ortiz García (better known as Yopi) and his […]... Read More

Nat 2021 Best spangleback (RKnowles)-FSS

The National Exhibition 2021: the London Fancies

Posted on 10/10/2021 by Huw Evans 3 Comments

These are exciting times for the London Fancy canary. We were denied a show season in 2020 thanks to lockdown, but the photographic evidence showed that the breed had made significant progress that year. Several breeders including Antonio Cientanni, Joe Coakley, Andy Early, Richard Knowles, Martin Walker and Andy Williamson had produced excellent specimens that […]... Read More

National 2021 Best Lizard (R&I Wright)-FSS

National 2021 Best Novice (Nick Rayson)-FSS

Natonal 2021 2nd Best Lizard (R&I Wright)-FSS

National Exhibition 2021: the Lizard canaries

Posted on 07/10/202108/10/2021 by Huw Evans 4 Comments

Business as usual? Not quite. There were obvious signs that 2021 was a transitional year; the covid lockdown had cast its shadow over the event. There were plenty of visitors, but not the crush of previous years; there were fewer trade stands in the sales halls and fewer rows of staging in the exhibition hall. […]... Read More

Vincent & Colette at LCA Classic 1997-FSS

Vincent Coquet, the French connoisseur

Posted on 25/11/2020 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

“He’s a genuinely nice person, a caring friend, loyal, hospitable, generous, bird-wise his awards speak for themselves”. A tribute to Vincent Coquet by Joe Coakley... Read More

Snelling & Southwick at 1954 National-FSS

Lizards at the National Exhibition during the 1950s

Posted on 19/03/202031/08/2020 by Huw Evans 9 Comments

No other show has played such an important part in the affairs of the Lizard Canary Association as the National Exhibition (1). Sponsored by Cage Birds magazine (as it was then known), it was the ‘National’ that gave the nascent LCA the opportunity to demonstrate to the world its determination to save the oldest breed […]... Read More