Breeders spread their wings at popular annual bird show - in pictures
Hundreds of people flocked to Stafford for a bird show.
Staffordshire Spring Bird Show spread its wings at Bingley Hall, with an event featuring around 700 breeders tables on display.
More than 30 regional, national and specialist bird clubs attended the show.
The show featured a selection of captive bred birds, mostly British, for sale by breeders and to breeders.
More than 80 trade stands sold items at the show, including birdkeeping-related merchandise, feeds, cages, supplements, books, services and equipment.
Birdkeepers, from the young to the most experienced, visited the show – with people on-hand to share their own knowledge of keeping practices.
All birds and cages were inspected before being offered by Defra and the RSPCA to maintain high standards.
A spokesman for the event said: "The show offered birds of all shapes, sizes and breeds, some for beginners, some for the experts and everything in between.
"Budgerigars, canaries, foreign and British finches, parakeets, parrots, softbills, seed-eaters, ground dwellers and all."
The show was strictly for private breeders to dispose of their own surplus bred birds.
No pet birds were offered for sale.
