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The outgoing SBS President Willie Orr has donated a new shield to be used for Best Junior, it will be presented to the lucky winner/winners at the AGM in 2011.

Pictures Below

TAYSIDE B.S. HELD THEIR CLUB SHOW TODAY SUN 8TH NOV O9

 

On this occasion Aberdeen were the victors with a close score 73 against 59.

Mr R.McLean and Mr J.Benzie had a total of 132 Birds to judge.

Best in Show went to the Grey Green Cock.

Derek Shaw

Derek Shaw - On behalf of Tayside BS.

East of Scotland members thoroughly enjoyed their  recent visit to Alistair Easdon's Aviary, all were made very welcome by Alistair and his wife. The visit was well attended and all from East of Scotland club would like to thank Alistair and his wife for their gracious hospitality.

ALISTAIR WITH MEMBERS OF EAST OF SCOTLAND BS

 WE HAD HEARD THAT ALISTAIR WAS EXPERIMENTING WITH SOME NEW OUTCROSSES (DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT ONE WILL DO FOR THE STUD THOUGH)

A BREAK FOR LUNCH

AN ENJOYABLE DAY OUT

Teresa Ross

Land 'O' Burns members, had a couple of enjoyable visits to Donald Burnett and Anne Guthrie. Both were well attended and a great time was had by all. A big thank you to Donald and Anne for their gracious hospitality.

 Donald Burnett judged the disappointing entry of 17 birds at the May meeting of the Forth Valley B.S. young bird show.

  Best moulted W&k Aitken with a grey cock

  2^nd best  W & K Aitken with a lightgreen hen

  3^rd best  D. Boyle with a greygreen cock

  Best unmoulted  A. Miller with a spangle grey hen

   2^nd best   W. & K. Aitken  with a lacewing white hen

   3^rd best  A. Miller with an opaline lightgreen cock

  The members would like to thank Donald and Willie Orr for there time in judging this years young bird shows.

                                                            Billy Aitken

The winners of the 2^nd young bird show were.

 Best in show--  D. Dalton  -- Yellowface Opaline Skyblue hen

 Second best     A. Miller       Spangle grey cock

 Third best         A. Miller       Lightgreen  cock

 Judge W. Orr remarked that the winning bird was a lovely hen that sat well when being judged. There were 24 birds benched.

Forth Valley B.S. would also like to welcome new member Mr. Hendry Kirk to the club and hope he really enjoys the club meetings.

Billy Aitken

At their first meeting of 2009 in March the members' barhead show was judged by David Dalton (assisted by Willie Aitken) Best Barhead/best champion-Mr 7 Mrs Welsh, Best Novice-P Gordon, Best Beginner -John Scammel-24 birds entered.  The winning bird was a very young green cock-apparently just off the nest! 

The members meantime were entertained with a judging Masterclass featuring normal Greens and Lutinos given by Donald McCallum.  Donald spent a considerable amount of time telling the members what he was looking for in each variety, the more common faults and how he judged a class large or small.  It proved a most interesting and informative evening for all concerned.

 The silver salver for most breeeder wins in 2008 was awarded to Porteous Gordon

Alan Paterson took BIS at the Forth Valley B.S. nestfeather show with an Op. Cinn. Lightgreen hen.

2nd  best was D. Boyle with a greygreen cock.

3^rd place going to W & K Aitken with a skyblue cock. Willie Orr judged the 25 birds that were on show.

Nest Feather Competition 

With a very good turnout of Members as well as Entries.

Keith Fundraising Day

John, Teresa, Alistair, Danny & Alice and John Spencer would all like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all of these people who took the time & effort to donate birds, money, raffles, home bakes, and everything else that helped us to raise this money.  It was a great outcome due to very bad weather conditions and a special thank you to Willie & Wilma for taking the time to come up to Keith with birds , to be presented with £1860.00 in memory of Harry Hepburn was a very special day. 

 Once again MANY THANKS TO,

John & Teresa Ross, Alistair Connor, John Spencer,Rachel Ross, Thomas Dickie, Danny & Alice Forbes, Julie Smith, John Alcock, George Mutch, Basil Thomas,Willie Stephen, John Allan, Grant Findlay, Nicky Flavell, Paul Thompson, George Jenkins, Michael Main, Alec Robertson, George Gillan, Jim Shepherd, Dougie Pringle, George Greig, Jim Gove, Gary Smith, Alistair Easdon, John McLeman, Mike Bodley, Eric Knight, Ian Gordon, Davey Scott, Bill Welsh, Jim & Linda McGeehan, Billy Duff, J R Neilson, Tommy Graham, Robert McLean, D & A Bruton, Honor Dickie, Bob Quigley, Tom Barrie, Donald Burnett, Bill Miller, Porteous Gordon, Eddie Rattray, Graeme Dunn, Gordon Christie, Kirk Morrison, Johanna Spencer, Colin Harper, Gary Bisset, Carol & Ed Adams, Joe Benzie, Frank Lornie, Steve Hart, Alan Melvin, Willie & Wilma Orr, Gordon Bruce, Derek Shaw, Davey Duncan, Alistair & Connor Cluckie, Brian Bruce,Steve Thornton,Doug Mathie, Robert Nawarauckas.

I’m sure it was a day we will all remember as a Fun day!!

1.  Name the varieties exhibited in the rare variety class.

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2. Colour spots at Championship Show. declare what each signify below each spot.

    yellow       green      red      blue,                                                

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3. Which budgerigar can be recognized by silhouette            .................................

4. When was the SBS. founded.............................. When was the BS founded.......................

5. The SBS. Editor.complete his surname.      Robert .N                  ............................................                                                            

6. Name the smallest british native bird.                                                                             .............................................................                                                       

7. Which bird has the greatest wingspan...                                                     ...........................................................................

8.Name five budgerigar varieties shown in the AOC.class................................................                                                                                 

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9. A bird ends up best of colour,then found to be unrung.The Judge then:

      A.  Grants the bird Best of Colour & Challange Certificate.                                

      B.  Disqualifies the bird.                                                                                      

      C. Gives it Best of Colour, and the challange certificate to the next best rung bird in the

             lineup.  .

10.  In which class would you show an oddeyed pied

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Alex Forbes of Dundee, after 42 years of keeping and exhibiting budgerigars has sold all his birds to concentrate on making films. Alex is the former president of the Scottish Video and Film Producers Society and has produced several top class videos of the Budgerigar Society show. A fancier who will be missed from the hobby.

The SBS and all it's members wish Alex "all the best " in his new venture.

At Edinburgh's recent club meeting, the members were invited to have a go at judging a selection of birds provided by Willie Orr and Bill Miller. The task was to place the birds in the same order as trainee judge Bob Quigley. All members had a go, even our two new members John and Duncan, talk about getting thrown in at the deep end, it was Duncan's first meeting! It was a good night and the winner for the evening was John MacDonald.

Below are a selection of some of the birds, the winner was an outstanding Grey Green from Bill Miller, but, unfortunately it decided to sit on the floor of the cage when I tried to take a picture.

Last night, Land O' Burns held their usual monthly meeting, the members that attended were treated to a fantastic talk given by a lad from Kilmarnock.

Stephen  Neville keeps Birds of Prey and brought along a few of his birds for members of the club to admire, some from afar.

 I was the only one to volunteer to hold these fantastic birds. 

( I KNOW IT'S NOT A LIGHT GREEN, BUT.........COULD THIS BIRD GIVE ME MORE FEATHER AROUND THE FACE )

( I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE MADE MY NESTBOXES BIGGER!!!!!!!)

                                                                                            REGARDS WILLIE PEACOCK

John Spencer and Steve Thornton

  Judge Brian Forbes with Kirk Morrison and Davy Scott

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Edinburgh BS Aviary Visit 2008

 In June  the EBS members visited the aviaries of Robert Nawarauckas (Stranraer) and Willie Peacock (Ayr).

The journey was well worth it and the weather brightened up as the day wore on.

Robert’s birdroom measures 20ft x 14ft being the main part and down to 10 ft in width, at the show training area, with no outside flight.

 Instead it boasts a large inside flight with a tiled floor.  His aviary, like his garden, was immaculate.  Ventilation is provided by an extractor fan, a large overhead filter fan, two louvered windows (in the flight) and an open wired door.

Robert keeps several varieties of budgerigars but his spangles were very impressive.

(Photo's above are the Parents of the youngsters shown below)

(Quality youngsters from the aviary of Robert Nawarauckas)

 His budgerigars were very steady in the flights and also when put into a show cage. Members saw for themselves the quality that Robert has managed to put into his birds, three generations of the one family being put into the training cages to show how he had managed to improve his stock.  This was the first formal visit by a budgerigar club to Robert’s aviary. He moves to Intermediate level this year.  From the quality of birds on show it is likely to be a succesful move for him.

Having seen good budgerigars, we sat for a little while in his lovely garden,

in the sunshine, with tea and sandwiches.  This is something we do well (the EBS folk like a good feed!). 

After a 90 minute journey, which included popping in to see Jim Laurie and his wife-(the EBS folk like a good gab!),  we arrived in Ayr to view Willie Peacock’s aviary, most had not visited him since his move.  Homemade soup, more sausage rolls and fairy cakes awaited us -(like hobbits the EBS folk like a good second feed!).  Willie too has a fantastic garden- this time hard landscaped with lots of pots in full bloom, lots of little water features and a koi pool, with a couple of real monsters swimming around in it. 

(Willie Orr thanking Willie Peacock for putting up with us) 

His new aviary,while similar to the old one in layout, is much smaller. The two blues, one grey and one cinnamon green stood out from amongst his 300 greens! 

(Six Light Greens sitting on a perch and if one Light Green should accidentally fall..........

there'll be few hundred more looking for a perch)

(Spot the odd one out?) 

Quality birds were everywhere, all had been despotted before our arrival.Despotting is something that Willie does  constantly, for several reasons,he finds he can assess the birds much better,the cleaner mask brings with it the appearance of greater depth,also when regularly handling the birds for despotting he can quickly pick up on any troubles such as growths, lack of weight etc fortunately these occur rarely in his birds. It also makes him very efficient in the art of trimming,and he even enjoys the task! 

  Willie keeps cocks and hens in separate flights and the youngsters in long flight cages until they moult out.  There were some promising youngsters in that cage.  Amongst the adults there was good depth of mask in evidence, wide heads and good body size.  While there was flecking in some of the birds, Willie seems to have it under control and uses it to maintain spot size. Willie’s budgerigars were a complete contrast to Robert’s, we went from a multi coloured aviary to one of almost single colour,

 what a contrast!

The members of the EBS wish to thank both Robert and Willie, and their respective wives, for their kind hospitality, which was greatly appreciated, as well as the opportunity to look at some wonderful budgerigars.