"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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John McGaw wrote:
On 7/21/2012 1:06 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 7/21/12 4:13 AM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Winter here is not very cold by Nth American and European
standards. The frosty shots in this collection are about as cold
as it gets, that is about -4C air temperature, probably -7C on the
ground.

http://s1086.photobucket.com/albums/...Winter%202012/

The citrus are still on the trees which are doing fine, they are
only frost tender under these conditions when young.

For those who have read me going on about medlar jelly here is why
I say the colour is pretty.

David


-4C is +24F, which is colder than anything I have seen in more than
five years.

Where are you?


South-Eastern Australia would be my guess given the onset of cold(ish)
weather a photo of an Eastern Rosella and the posting time offset on
the anonymous free German(?) news server. Of course the bird might
have been in a zoo or been a vacation snap and the time offset could
be faked but I'm guessing not.

There are only a handful of shots in all the albums that were not taken on
my property. The birds in the winter album are locals, as is the eagle in
another. Albasani is Italian and free and I recommend it for those who
want to use a newsreader.

If the weather is really even a degree
below freezing I'd be betting on New South Wales or Victoria but,

No, any inland area in the southern half of the continent fits that.

given the population distribution in Oz, they would be the odds-on
favorites anyway. Tasmania is always a slight possibility. (Wonder if
David knows Richard Raffan?) Inland somewhere away from the tempering
effect of the ocean seems reasonable. Could it even be Canberra?
Could be, but keeping chickens in Canberra seems wrong somehow but,
again, the picture could be misleading.

The climate here is not unlike Canberra but I am not as high so the
coldest time only lasts a few hours instead of days and it generally warms
up through the day. There is no reason why you couldn't keep chooks in
Canberra.

I know people in Canberra who've kept and still do keep chooks - in fact
decades ago when we lived in Canberra we had chooks and ducks. No roosters
are allowed but certainly no problems with keeping chooks or ducks.