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    Canaries Month by Month: OCTOBER

    Oct 20, 2021 4 minutes

    OCTOBER 2021, and finally our show season has arrived. Family circumstances meant that I missed Stafford this time round, but it was good to see it up and running again after its forced absence. Covid-19 is becoming more of an inconvenience rather than the all-threatening pandemic it once was, especially for those who are double-jabbed, or who like me will soon have scored our hat trick. Perhaps Covid can be relegated to the ranks of the common cold, at least in theory, although time alone will tell.

    The first show on my calendar is the Yorkshire Canary Club show in Saltaire at the end of the month. Sadly, it will lack overseas and Irish birds, but at

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