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6th & 7th are good variety birds – lacking modern features.
Judges comments (recorded by Carol Gough):
When we first walked up onto the platform we thought “what a great class of birds” but unfortunately most of them had problems.
The winning bird is a big strong hen that stands out and has all the modern features. She has good body colour, good variety bird, the flights are just fractionally short and maybe in another week she will be outstanding. The second bird is a much smaller bird and has a big outline problem as he often sits with a swayed back. Probably one of the strongest faces is the third bird but when you look closely at him you see that his colour is uneven all over and he doesn’t relax his feather so we can’t see everything he has got. We did recognise he was a good budgie . Fourth hen has everything you want except not quite enough feather and again fifth is similar to third but would not perch and at this level of competition it must perch.