Is this Britain’s best birdkeeping job? The Ravenmaster at the Tower of London thinks so. Barney Chandler stepped up to the role last year. He tells us how he’s enjoying it so far and about the career of service in the armed forces that led up to the big promotion! A “big promotion” also for the Budgie Soc Club Show, with an hour-by-hour account of what’s happening over the centenary weekend in Blackpool. More centenaries! In the Gloster canary’s 100th birthday year, we finally meet the breed’s mysterious creator, previously known only as “Mrs Rogerson”. Who’d have guessed she was a feisty femme from Buenos Aires? Plus: Borders, Yorkies, waxbills, sunbitterns and a spruce-up for your old birdroom routine.

Is this Britain’s best birdkeeping job? The Ravenmaster at the Tower of London thinks so. Barney Chandler stepped up to the role last year. He tells us how he’s enjoying it so far and about the career of service in the armed forces that led up to the big promotion! A “big promotion” also for the Budgie Soc Club Show, with an hour-by-hour ac....