Drones above QX

This topic has been covered before but not for many years and I have a slightly different issue. I am a very novice beek with 6 months experience. I have a flow 2 and started with a nuc placing the super on about 12 weeks ago. I noticed today, a few drones in the inspection windows of the super. After reading previous threads I was very anxious that my queen was above the qx or I had a laying worker in the super. So I’ve just opened the super to inspect all the flow frames and there is only capped and uncapped honey in all frames. No eggs that I could see and definitely no cocoons.I shook the majority of all the bees in the super into a corflute nuc box and replaced the flow frames in the super and closed it. Some bees remained on the walls of the super. I have watched the workers re-enter the hive and saw a few drones that must have been in the mix. I’m really not sure how they got in there? I haven’t opened the brood box today. We are in Brisbane and the poor bees have been smashed by the weather so I didn’t want to disrupt them any more than I had to. I just thought I should make sure that the super wasn’t full of brood. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Matthew

If you have only honey in the super, no larvae or capped brood, then that rules out the queen or laying workers being there.
Check carefully the condition of the queen excluder as this is the only way drones can get into the super. It must be damaged in some way.
Plastic excluders have a bad reputation. I prefer the ones that use steel wires.

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