Profiles

Marie Russell

Marie Russell became interested in canaries in 2000, when she purchased her first trio of American Singers from Mike Grohman of Michigan and a Roller male from Jessie Durkin. She became “hooked” during her first year of exhibiting, despite having only a single male American Singer to show- and he refused to sing even once at any of the four shows he attended that year!

Brenda Varhola

As a child, Brenda's would spend hours watching and trying to capture wild birds. She would prop a cardboard box up with a stick, put bread underneath as bait, and wait behind a nearby bush ready to jerk the rope that would cause the trap to fall. She reports that she never caught anything except for poison ivy, but in looking back can see that she developed a lifelong interest in birdwatching.

Marshall and Shirley Searles

Breeders/Exhibitors/Fanciers of American Singer Canaries

As a Christian couple with an "empty nest", Shirley and Marshall were looking for a hobby that wouldn't interfere with their church obligations. For three years, they searched for canaries in their area and in November of 1994, Marshall purchase their first canary as an anniversary present.

Harrison Smith

Harrison has been interested in birds for years, and became particularly interested in canaries in 2002. Harrison had retired and had a lot of time on his hands, and he had a lonely male canary. One thing lead to another...

Harrison really enjoys raising canaries, from watching the eggs being laid to observing the rapid growth of the babies, noticing as each one develops their own personality. He becomes very attached to them, and finds it hard to see one leave when it's sold.

Roger Stroman

Since Roger was a young boy, he has been very interested in animal life and in particular birds. His parents did not encourage his involvement, and in some cases, tried to discourage it, so he had to wait until post-college years to really pursue it.... and pursue it HE HAS, as he's been the keeper of quite a variety of caged birds over the years.

He started out with small pscittacines (hookbills) in 1969, and concentrated on cockatiels for 15 years, long before cockatiels were plentiful and popular as they are today.