World Show 2020: Lizard canaries

Posted on 29/01/202029/01/2020 by Huw Evans 4 Comments

This year’s World Show returned to Matosinhos (1) in Portugal. My primary purpose was to make the second presentation of the London Fancy, which I will report in a separate post, but I stayed on to visit the show on the opening Friday. As so often happens, I spent more time talking to people than […]... Read More

LCA Classic 2019, part 2: a judging tutorial

Posted on 24/11/2019 by Huw Evans 3 Comments

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

Spanish National 2019 Banos de la Encina-FI

Spanish National 2019 judging for BIS-FSS

Spanish National 2019 judges & organisers-FSS

Spanish National 2019 judging the specials-FSS

Spanish National 2019 the organisers-FSS

Spanish National 2019 Alfonso, Ernest & Kiko-FSS

Spanish National 2019 Fabio enjoys himself while Domenico does the work!-FSS

Spanish National 2019 Juan Carlos Blanco-FSS

Spanish National 2019 MIGUEL RECACHA GONZÁLEZ, the Keyring man-FSS

Spanish National 2019 tension mounts-FSS

The Greatest Show on Earth?

Posted on 17/11/201918/11/2019 by Huw Evans 2 Comments

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 2nd Best Nov AMaclean-FSS

LCA Classic 2019 BCGH 2019 D Newtonn-FSS

LCA Classic 2019 Best Ch o-year DRichmond-FSS

LCA Classic 2019 Best ChNC CdSantaAnna-FSS

LCA Classic 2019 Best Natural 2 THorton-FSS

LCA Classic 2019 Best Natural colour THorton-FSS

LCA Classic 2019

Posted on 12/11/2019 by Huw Evans 9 Comments

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 Best gold non cap (BDeckers)-FSS

Lizarddag 2019 Best Gold Lizard (XXX)-FSS

Lizarddag 2019 Best Lizard (BDeckers)-FSS

Lizarddag 2019

Posted on 30/10/201931/10/2019 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

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

National 2019 LFs Best unfl (JCoakley)-FSS

London Fancies at the National Exhibition 2019

Posted on 23/10/2019 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

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

National 2019 2ndBest Lizard THorton-FSS

National 2019 Best Champ AWilliamson-FSS

National 2019 2nd Best Champ AWilliamson-FSS

Classic Lizards at the National Exhibition 2019

Posted on 13/10/201917/10/2019 by Huw Evans 2 Comments

Let me get the usual complaints out of the way. The first weekend in October is far too early for a show as important as the National, but it is a fact of life and we have to live with it.... Read More

fine spangled sort

The London Fancy and the Lizard canary

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