BIRDS & BIRDKEEPING
MARCH
CANARIES
ONE of the drawbacks of the world wide web is the immediate availability of birdkeeping information: pictures and videos of canaries from around the world, all paired up, nests full of eggs or healthy chicks, with even some “on the sticks”. While all this is happening somewhere in sunny Timbuktu, here in the UK we have sub-zero temperatures, snow, frosts and occasional fogs. It might be only January or February and our thoughts are still around conditioning our stock for the upcoming breeding season.
I wonder how many of us are encouraged to make an earlier start than we had originally planned, lulled by our internet friends into starting prematurely, for fear of somehow
