COVER STORY: MIXED COLLECTIONS
CAGE & Aviary Birds: How did you get into birds?
Mike Fox: For me, the obsession started at six years old, with two wallpaper-strippers (budgies), then a zebra finch and diamond dove, all in my parents’ kitchen. A neighbour of mine kept racing pigeons. It fascinated me how they flew in a flock and actually came back! This led me to keep Birmingham roller pigeons.
After the peregrine falcon had eaten most of them for lunch, I started to keep some Amazons in the 1990s. Now, having more time on my hands, as I’ve got older, the obsession has
