World show: gallery 2

Posted on 12/02/201912/02/2019 by Huw Evans 1 Comment

The original intention of this post was to display a second gallery of photographs taken by Joe Coakley of the Lizards at the 2019 World Show. Anyone who has read Joe’s critique in Part 1 will know that some of the judges’ decisions were very controversial.... Read More

Amigos 2018 winning Ocelados Angel Ortega-FSS

Club Amigos del Canario Lizard show 2018

Posted on 09/11/2018 by Huw Evans 5 Comments

The Lizard canary show scene has taken me to ten different countries, all of them with their own character, and all of them enjoyable, yet I have never experienced anything quite like the Club Amigos del Canario Lizard 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

The National Exhibition 2018

Posted on 11/10/2018 by Huw Evans 3 Comments

The 2018 show season is under way! ... Read More

The road to Cesena, Part 1

Posted on 11/02/2018 by Huw Evans 1 Comment

According to Google maps, the road from Nottingham to Cesena is 1,128 miles (1815 km) long. Like many Lizard canary breeders, my road to Cesena was not measured by distance, but by the advances and retreats of a 15 month campaign to get my birds to the World Show.... Read More

EALCA Show 2017

Posted on 22/11/2017 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

Traditionally, the East Anglia Lizard Canary Association show is the first of the major Lizard shows to be held each year in Great Britain. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was second only to the National Exhibition in importance. ... Read More

The National Exhibition of Birds 2017

Posted on 09/10/2017 by Huw Evans 1 Comment

Those of you who remember the ‘old’ National, will quite likely dismiss the ‘new’ National as a pale shadow of the original event. Gone is the NEC (1), a prestigious international venue with its excellent air, rail and road links, replaced by an agricultural show ground in rural Staffordshire. Gone is the December rendezvous at […]... Read More

fine spangled sort

The London Fancy and the Lizard canary . . . for those who are very curious

Lizard show