After a successful - in parts - breeding season 2022, the show season began with the major show of the year - The National Exhibition held at Stafford on 2 October 2022. This year I entered only 16 birds and while the overall number of birds exhibited was clearly up from 2021, it remained down from 2019. 

There were only 19 Scots Fancies exhibited by three exhibitors but as a proportion of the Old Varieties Show within the National, the figures held up. 

I was delighted to win Best Scots Fancy in Show and Best Belgian Fancy while my Giboso took second place in his class. More impressively, the Belgian, a son of my World Champion bird, was in the run-off for Best White Canary in Show which he didn't win but to be in the running was a great honour.