Our crazy Melbourne "summer"

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Hello, just curious if our lack of summer this year and crazy weather has effected everyone's finch breeding? Particularly gouldians?
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I can only speak for this side of the country by saying that the extended spring here has canarys still building nests.
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Brisbane essentially had no spring. On the first day of spring, temperatures climbed to 34 degrees and stayed in the mid-30's for most of spring. We only got 15% of the average rain. Summer was even worse, with Brissie experiencing extremely dry, hot weather. Quite often it climbed to over 7 degrees above average in early summer, and usually stayed around 3-4 degrees above average. Thus, bird seed prices went through the roof from local growers and seeding grass was extremely rare.
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Interesting, thanks for the info 👍
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And we only got the start of our "rainy season" (which usually starts early November) two weeks ago with a week and a half of non stop rain.
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Brisbane_Finches_333 wrote: 09 Mar 2020, 07:14 And we only got the start of our "rainy season" (which usually starts early November) two weeks ago with a week and a half of non stop rain.
Australia has certainly thrown some weird weather our way this year, my gouldians have only just laid their first egg which is a hell of alot later for me... I just thought that perhaps the lack of our usual hot weather down here was a factor in that, or perhaps for other people too. Hope everyone is having or has had success and thank You to those that reply 👍
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It is hot here, 40 today and much muggier this year than normal for our usually dry location. And most finches are showing little interest in breeding, including the Gouldians.
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Probably a good idea for them if it's that hot and muggy.... poor buggers

It really is amazing though how tough our little finches are, hard to imagine life without them 🐤🐦🙂
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