Matthews April 2026_2

 James Matthews: James is a BSNSW Senior Panel judge and over the last six show seasons James has won 21 Grand Champion awards with 10 different birds at BSNSW Branch and Associates shows.

He has had birds represent NSW at the last 9 Nationals with his best results being wins in 2017 with a Spangle Cinnamon Greygreen hen in the AOSV Spangle class and in 2019 with a Greywing Greygreen cock.

Over the last five Nationals he has had 18 birds represent NSW with 10 of those finishing in the top nine. He had 6 birds represent NSW at the 2022 National with the highest placing being 3rd in Greywing.

James breeds a number of varieties, but Spangles are the cornerstone of his aviary.

Pam specialises in Goldenface and Darkwings, but the Darkwings have been problematic this season.

We have had a good season and need to make more room for the 2026 youngsters so these auctions have some 2023/2024 birds that were reserves and not used, some of the earlier 2025 rung birds and some late bred 2025 rung birds that we really shouldn't be letting go this young (but the 2026 young need the flight).

Feel free to ask questions and I will try and respond as quickly as possible.

Good luck and good breeding 

We are having 3 auctions, all start on the same day and will finish on consecutive days - Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

That way everyone will be able to see all the birds available in all the auctions before the first auction closes so they can decide which ones they are interested in across the auctions.

We went with the 3 auctions of 20 each as people have said they have trouble trying to keep up with the birds they are interested in with larger number of lot auctions. So I think this is the way to get them done in a short time and still give people the opportunity to get the birds they are interested in.

We have the starting price low to allow the bidding to set the price, all birds will be sold to make flight room for this years youngsters.

I try and avoid subjective wording like big, small etc as people can have totally different ideas as to what constitutes those but rather I try and put 4 different photos for each lot to try and give you as much idea about the birds as possible. One of them should be a full cage shot in the show cage to help with size but remember where the bird is standing in the cage can make them seem bigger or smaller (closer to the front of the cage they look bigger and right against the back they look smaller). Also some people take the photo from above the bird to make the head look bigger than it really is.

We have just quickly taken the photos and not played around with the birds as James is self-admittedly a terrible photographer with no patience when they don't want to jump straight on the perch and let him take the photo. 

Extended bidding will be activated so any bids in the last 3 minutes of the auction (and then subsequent 3 minutes) will extend the finish time by up to 30 minutes. This is to be fair to all bidders and stop a sniping bid to be made without giving the other bidder the chance to respond.