We did our sort of fortnightly run to Bendigo today. Quick stop at the Medical Center to get some new prescriptions. Dr Ibrahim is from somewhere in Africa, and is the nicest bloke.
We did a lap around town, three supermarkets, big hardware barn for brass screws, Petstock for the cat food, Bush's for the sack of grit and sunflower, etc.
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On the way home Jimmy the Commodore clicked over 300,000 kilometres. He made no fuss about it.
He's a great old car. Wonderful.
When we got home we jumped out and went, " wow."
It was warm.
I put the heat sensor thing under a tree, 20 minutes later it was 42.5 c. The back garden faces the west and is enclosed.
I've got pigeons on babies that have the rings on and some of them are getting out of the nests. I was thinking the water might be getting warm on such a hot day. Indeed, it was blood temperature, and I flushed all the drinkers. Some of the nest bowls and newspaper in the boxes were not the very best either. I think the parents may have been pumping water into them.
So I put clean bowls and felts under all the babies and changed the paper.
I had one pair of nest babies that were squeaking, like they were hungry. As soon as I cleaned out the box the cock was pumping feed into one, and the hen was feeding the other.
Make no mistake. Pigeons despise a dirty nest box.
