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

World Show 2019: a Dutch trait

Posted on 08/02/2019 by Huw Evans 8 Comments

My visit to the World Show had a different focus this year. My priority was to present the London Fancy show standard, which took place on the first weekend of the show. I didn’t stay to view the Lizards, but I knew a man whom I could trust to give an honest and comprehensive review […]... Read More

Liege 2018- Best silver by FE (from LD)-FSS

Lizards at Liege 2018

Posted on 17/12/2018 by Huw Evans 4 Comments

The Liege BPC show is one of those shows that any Lizard canary breeder who wants to compete at the top level should have on their hit list. Why? Because you will be up against World Champions. Win a class here and you can start dreaming of a medal at the World Show.... Read More

Lizarddag 2018 Best colour fed MDielen-FSS

Lizarddag 2018

Posted on 31/10/2018 by Huw Evans 2 Comments

Football commentators are rather fond of describing a match as ‘a game of two halves’; a statement of the obvious.... Read More

Lizarddag 2017

Posted on 31/10/2017 by Huw Evans 9 Comments

2017 was a year of innovation for the Lizarddag. The classification was enlarged and saw the introduction of classes for gold and silver cock Lizards, a class for the Vectis and perhaps most importantly of all, a class for London Fancies. ... Read More

A visit to Fernand

Posted on 16/11/201616/11/2016 by Huw Evans Leave a comment

“He that has abilities to conceive perfection will not easily be content without it” Samuel Johnson (1751) You may not have heard of the BPC Liege show, but it is an outstanding event (1). It is an all-canary show catering for no less than 30 varieties plus, for the 2016 edition, a special competition for […]... Read More

Lizarddag 2016

Posted on 02/11/2016 by Huw Evans 7 Comments

Isn’t it wonderful when the underdog wins? It restores your faith in the human spirit when the competitors who always try hard, but usually have to settle for second best, finally have their moment of glory. The 2016 Lizarddag was one of those wonderful occasions.... Read More

fine spangled sort

Fernand Moes