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CANARIES
MY NAME is Richard Nightingale and I’m a novice breeder of the English cinnamon canary.
I’m from Tipton in the West Midlands and live with my family. I am a dad of five - I have two sons and three daughters - oh and then there’s the other half who is the boss of us all. I work full time in an air-conditioning factory, five days a week. Then at the weekends I work for myself, using my woodworking skills to build sheds and cages. That used to be my full time job before covid and I had my own business, but due to costs I had to stop.
It was at about 13 years of age that I got into birds, thanks to a neighbour who kept Irish fancy. I spent