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take care of those little birds!

Only thing Ill be watching for if we get prolonged rain is Cocci .

Rain has subsided here, sun broken out.....about 30 degrees and a thousand percent humidity.......By my rough calcs we got 340mm in the last three days...............As soon as I'm confident of a couple of dry days, in goes the Baycox.....this is high time for Coccidia

125mm overnite and my "shitty" aviaries are on Baycox this morning. Our tanks are overflowing for the first time in years and many finches collecting nesting material this morning.

Yeah,
Had some serious rain overnight here in Sydney. My "weatherproof" aviaries didn't do too bad but took enough water to think that Baycox might make a return. In all reality I think the birds were comfier than me because when II went to go to bed after the cricket I found a torrent of water coming down from the ceiling onto the bed everything soaked! Found two tiles had shifted over the bedroom. Not happy Jan! Sleepless night to say the least but when I went to feed the "babies" this morning they were as happy as Larry to see me as per usual. Think I might camp with them tonight!

Hope everyone stays dry, and they're birds cocci-free! (And hope your bed dries out, Matcho!)
One good thing about the storms, the bird watchers are having a phenomenal time! All sorts of highly unusual seabirds being blown right up against the coast, all down along the eastern side.

No idea what you are taking about Jayburd
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Where do I begin? What a week! Two days of torrential rain and cyclonic wind.(Sun/Mon) No electricity for four and a half days. Generator doesn't work as it hasn't been used in seven years. Takes it into town and gets the motor working. We can't fix the electrical side of it, maaate, you'll have to go to an electrician. Gets to electrician, Nah mate nah, we can't fix that, you'll have to take it to Tween Heads half an hour away. Nah mate can't get to Tweed Heads, roads under water. You'll have to go south to Brunswick Heads then go north to Tweed Heads adding only an extra hour to the trip. All getting to hard by this stage with two fridges and a freezer goin orf, so decides to hire a generator, as hearsay has it that it could be several days before power is restored. No body local has a generator, all out. Oh, no wait, we do have an old one over there we can let you have, but you'll have to come in now as others will be wanting it. ( At this stage visions of Mr Haney from Greenacres start to appear) So we goes and gets said generator and brings it home, cough, splutter, fizzle, its a no work. Eh. Rings hire man and asks, Is there something that I should know about this machine, it don't work? Oh der, I must have given you the wrong one. That one was brought in to be fixed. You betta bring it back in. Shakes head, facepalm and takes it back in. That night has an epiphany whilst standing in a tub of hot water pouring jug of same over head. ( No power, no pump, no water to house.) Why not take semi rancid food to friends house in town and put it in their spare fridge/ freezer. Wednesday midday job done. Now cooking limited choice of food on gas stove by candle light and thinking of how it must have been in the old days before electricity.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, feeding birds with great difficulty, as no power means no frozen foods (softbill mix, meat, pilchards, crickets, peas and corn, nectar mix) I goes into big aviary to find dead, elongated, sucked, wet pheasant. Only one thing can do that, a six foot long carpet snake with two other bulges in it. Poor diddums couldn't cope with the pheasant so had a couple of medium sized pigeons instead. How did it get in you ask. Well no power means no hot wire to keep rats out, which then chewed three large holes in the hail mesh letting out a male Scarlet Honeyeater and letting in the snake. Never let an opportunity go by. Thursday 5 pm, Ping, power back on, so goes back into town to retrieve the semi rancid, now frozen food to bring back home. Spends Friday cleaning fridges and restoring storm damage and shopping to prepare for mum's 90 th birthday tomorrow. So how was your week?

Commiserations . . was thinking it would be a bit like that where you are

We dodged a bullet with only about 12 inches, mostly at night, over a couple of days

Had similar experiences unfortunately with cyclones dropping branches, busting aviaries, losing birds . . . . and generators

Heartbreaking and feel for you

Speechless, don't know what to say, poor bigger!