Edinburgh Budgerigar Society

Edinburgh Budgerigar Society

58^th Open Show

(Held on 1 August 2009)

Best in Show and Best Any Age was unanimously awarded to local champion, Bill Miller’s Spangle Green Cock which was presented in outstanding show condition.  Best Young Bird in Show was awarded to Main & Jenkins with their opaline green hen; best opposite sex young bird was a grey green cock from P Redford and best opposite sex any age went to Quigley and Watson with their grey green hen.

In over 40 years of exhibiting at this show, Bill has once won best opposite sex in show and once best breeder in show, This is the first occasion that he has won the supreme award.  The winning spangle’s father is a grey normal cock with which Bill had some show success in 2008 and the spangle’s son has been quite successful on the show bench this year.

BS “Gold” patronage attracted a bench entry of 640 which was down slightly due to four exhibitors not entering their birds on the day of the show but the verdict of the judges was that the quality was better than last year.  The show hall again came in for favourable comment due to its natural lighting, facilities, location, and ease of parking and off-loading of the birds.  The disabled parking bays immediately outside the show hall assisted several disabled exhibitors, a facility not found at many of the show halls in Scotland unfortunately.

The judges who travelled from England commented very favourably on the high quality of the hotel accommodation that had been provided to them as well as the three course lunch provided during the show-catering was kindly supplied by Jose and Bob Quigley.

Judges were J Shepherd, D Pringle, H Hockaday, A Adams & P Hutchinson

Round the shows in 2008