heat changing things

[TomDeGraaff]

I just wrote in another thread how a fellow in Sydney had lost 15 birds when he came home from work today

I had just agreed to buy some but they were dead by the time he got home. I feel rather rotten for the birds and for him. Nasty thing to happen....

[Canary]

They have now put the official BOM temperature in western Sydney up to 47C yesterday, which is the official record.

I know from my thermometer that it has been hotter in my birdroom twice in the past reaching 45C, whilst it reached 43C yesterday.

This morning it is a beautiful 21C with a forecast high of 28C. It has also been raining/spitting overnight.

I can"t believe the difference overnight, and the forecast difference of 19 between yesterday and today.


I did not loose one bird yesterday, and draw 2 conclusions:

1. That at 43C canaries can handle this temperature as it has only reached 45C on 2 previous occasions in the birdroom that birds died, and/or,

2. Survival of the fittest - The chicks/offspring from the birds that survived the last heat wave in 2001 are more tolerant to the higher temperatures. I guess that this will only be confirmed if the temperature does get to 45C again in the future in the birdroom.

[E Orix]

My birdroom thermometer(good quality) was showing 52C yesterday at 2pm.
The gap between ceiling and roof has insulation in it there are 3 doors which were open and 2 large windows open as well.
Walls are tin on the outside and AC sheet lined inside
Yet it still reached that temp.
As I have mentioned before,if you have a single skin tin walled aviary it will act like an oven. The quickest and simple way of dropping the inside temp. is throw a piece of shade cloth over the outside and wet the aviary floor then walk away and leave the birds.
Limit your visits,I only go through,early morning,around noon and early evening. basically to feed and then check the watering system and hoses that are running.

[vettepilot_6]

They have now put the official BOM temperature in western Sydney up to 47C yesterday, which is the official record.

I honestly do not know where they get their records from, when a little kid I can remember it was soo hot we sat in bathtub most of the days for bout a week, on top of that when I bought my first house at Glossodia Windsor, we had days on end when it was 45c in the shade.....its just typical weather we have every year, sometimes its hot somestimes its cold....

[mattymeischke]

...where they get their records from...

Their archives, which can be explored online or physically visited if one wished to be relieved of ones cynicism.

Remember, though, it is a finch forum.

Sorry to hear about people's losses in this unusual heat.

[jusdeb]

Richmond / Windsor gets very bloody hot .
Lived at Kurmond during some very ordinary summers of 45 degrees .

[vettepilot_6]

Richmond / Windsor gets very bloody hot .
Lived at Kurmond during some very ordinary summers of 45 degrees .

Thats where Glosodia is Deb

[jusdeb]

Yep between kurrajong and glossodia ...lived on a horse stud ,probably gone now .