Judges Comments:
Judged by Jim Fletcher & Errol Miller
Summation by Errol Miller.
We had much pleasure in judging this class as they are awesome birds all the way down to 18th placing. Congratulations to all the breeders.Gerd Bleicher & Kevin O’Callaghan
First owned by Shepphard & Flanagan (Victoria) is a big strong Spangle green that showed well.Alan Rowe (Vic) has a nice brow, mask and deportment
Second owned by Johnston Family (South Queensland) is a very nice light green and unlucky to finish in second placing. Good overall size and typeAlan Rowe (Vic) lovely bird, down in feather compared to winner, markings were slightly more than 20% and was penalised accordingly.
Third owned by P & K Cox (South Queensland) is a nice typey greygreen that stands tall on the perch. Fourth owned by R & V Gardiner (Q’land North & Central Zone) is a lovely Spangle Blue of good size and type.B Free (Tas) is a Violet with lovely frontal, big spots, good mask but not quite the width of the first two birds.
Overall there is a degree of grizzling in the caps which we penalised.
The wing marking were good mostly ranging between 10 to 20%