Healthy Raw Diet for Parrots

[Wolf]

If you are getting greens and produce this early I am guessing that you have a greenhouse or something similar as down here in the Blue Ridge Mountains where I live there is freeze and frost danger until May.

[seagoatdeb]

nope its in my yard, and I live in Canada, in the Okanagan desert, so it is warm in the spring and fall, and baking hot in the summer here. The lilacs bloomed in April, The collard greens and kale is really good right now.

[Wolf]

OK. I will have to look it up on a map but apparently it is off of the west coast and there is a warm ocean current running up to Alaska. Where I live half of the time the southern jet stream jumps up and down and runs from the great lakes and further south than I am, and part of the year we have the northern jet stream controlling the weather. Right now the northern jet stream has just move back north and until November the southern jet stream will be passing back and forth over us. The el nino off the west coast of south America has been helping to keep it warmer than normal for the past several years. The last two years it has rained here so much that most people have lost their gardens due to drowning or excessive heat. But I am being told that the el nino is beginning to weaken this year.

[seagoatdeb]

Today it was a little cooler than last week and was 21C, which is roughly 70F, but last week it hit 30C a couple days. Some people i know have planted their tomatoes, but I think its too early, any planted in a couple weeks will catch up anyway without worrying that it could get too cold one night. i am waiting 2 weeks to plant my sweet potatoes too but they are ready. The coast is a five hour drive from here.

[Wolf]

OK, a five hour drive, I would estimate to be between 2 and 3 hundred miles depending on speed limits and driving conditions. That is not much of a distance for the warm ocean current to affect or for any other weather condition.

I know that the plants would also be responding to these things as well. I am aware sometimes extremely strongly of weather fronts as far away as the Rocky mountains on a normal basis even though I live in the Blue Ridge Mountain on the other side of the country.

[seagoatdeb]

We have a really strange climate here, It is very desert like where i live the soils is sandy and soil had to be brought in to grow things. There are lots of growing zones here for plants, depending what part of the city you live in. There is a large lake that is reported to have Ogo Pogo in it.....lol....It gets cold in the winter but we rarely have snow that stays for more than a day or too. It is very dry too so we use humidifiers for ourselves and the parrots, it keeps my lips from chapping and their feathers from getting to dry. The summer is very hot, and we have may days that hit 40C. Very little rainfall or snow fall. The moisture from the coast does not make it here, lots of mountain ranges, and it also depend what side of the mountain you are on so lots of variance in the area.

i did use to live in Victoria on the coast and it had a milder winter but it felt colder because of the dampness. But the summers on the coast are moderated by the closeness to the ocean, and it was never warm enough for me......The temperature here suits me better and I take the dry heat well. The spring and fall are nice and warm, and the dry winter is good too. On a cold winter day, the snow will dissapear here because of the dryness it will sublimate. The only way snow can stay here is in a warmer year, when there is enough humidity that there is no sublimation, so you have to wait for melting.

[Wolf]

Yeah, the moisture will mostly be dropped on the western side of the mountains but the effects of the warmer air will probably still make it. I have lived on the west coast of the US from Seattle down to Los Angeles and then inland in Arizona from Flagstaff to Bisbee. I have actually lived in nearly every area of the US except for the New England states.

[seagoatdeb]

I love the area around Flagstaff and have been there many times for long trips, I am a rock and mineral collector, so often go to the Tucson Rock and Gem show. Seattle is very similar weather to Victoria, except that Victoria gets more sunny days and less rain. Since the ferry ran straight from Victoria to Seattle I spent a lot of time there.