Gloster Canaries

Welcome to Richard Lumley Gloster Canaries

 

Hi,my name is Richard Lumley and I live in the heart of North Yorkshire,England.     

 I’ve been breeding Gloster Canaries for 21 years.My stud of glosters originate from purchasing breeding stock from the late Jim Spring from Nottingham,Nick and Annalain Barrett from Kings Lynn and Jan Vanderstraeten from Belgium.All my birds therefore are Barrett based.

 It has taken a lot of time and hard work to get my stud of birds up to a high standard of diminutive birds.Trying to get feather quality and type has not been easy.I now feel that I have got both ot these in my birds.People tend to forget that the gloster is a type canary and as such,they are to be a to be a small bird.

All my birds are bred by me in my shed and are all close rung with COM ID Coded colour of the year rings, and in my opinion all breeds of birds should be compulisory close rung.As certain sections of the Canary Council are totally against close ringing I wonder why? Even the glosters which are affiliated to the Canary Council are against close ringing,why I ask,what is the problem when the whole of Europe are for it.

I am the Membership/ Ring Secretary and World Show Conveyor of the International Ornithological Association.I exhibit my birds at the world show under the points system.

To date I have shown at the last 6 world shows and have had one bird reach 90 points which is now 3 point’s off a medal. I hope to achieve a medal at the next world show in France in 2011.

Please feel free to email me if you require any information on how to show at a world show on richardlumley27@tiscali.co.uk
Thank you for visiting my website.

Richard Lumley.