Our abiding pleasure in birds
AN UNEXPECTED telephone call from a person who used to breed exhibition budgerigars a few years ago in partnership with his father, helped to convince me afresh about the pleasures we get from keeping birds.
It was Stewart Griffin, who was formerly a champion breeder with his father Paul. Both were serious breeders who won many top exhibition awards in years gone by. Since lockdown, Stewart has built an aviary with an outside flight and was enjoying all the fascinations that a mixed garden aviary stocked with canaries and foreign finches can bring. I was not surprised to hear him say how
