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Location: Alipore Zoo, Kolkata.
MY VISIT TO KOLKATA ZOO - 17 [ This series is dedicated to my elder brother HGM ]
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This is the image of a series called " MY VISIT TO KOLKATA ZOO ". This zoo is very unfriendly for the Photographers. Most of the animals and birds are kept in thick netting [sometimes multiple] with iron bars and Railings to keep the on lookers away from the cage. So the scope of Photography is very limited here. One has to use a telephoto lens above 400 mm to zoom out those bars and nettings to obtain an uninterrupted image of the display. This can be done only when the subject remains in a particular distance from the cage nettings.
Southbound freight 11Z passing the approach signal that warns northbound traffic for the switch at Vesuvius. While the N&W-era CPL signals at the control points are the stars of the show on the NS H-Line, these newer intermediate signals are being replaced as well.
This endangered species is endemic to the coasts of Namibia and South Africa. The birds are intermediate in appearance between the shags (P. aristotelis) and the great cormorants (P. carbo) of Europe. Photo taken from a boat.
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Most of the intermediate signals are not easily accessible east of Mitchell versus west. Here at MP91.8, a short walk yields a great view. W035 is the only move to pass these signals on this day.
The Helix Nebula, also known as The Helix and also referred as the Eye of Good or Eye of Sauron. NGC 7293, is a large planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, probably before 1824. This Planetary Nebula is one of the closest to the Earth. The estimated distance is about 215 parsecs (700 light-years) closer than the Great Orion Nebula. It is similar in appearance to the Cat's Eye Nebula and the Ring Nebula, whose size, age, and physical characteristics are similar to the Dumbbell Nebula, varying only in its relative proximity and the appearance from the equatorial viewing angle.
The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula, formed by an intermediate to low-mass star, which sheds its outer layers near the end of its evolution. Gases from the star in the surrounding space appear, from our vantage point, as if we are looking down a helix structure. The remnant central stellar core, known as a planetary nebula nucleus or PNN, is destined to become a white dwarf star. The observed glow of the central star is so energetic that it causes the previously expelled gases to brightly fluoresce.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_Nebula
Taken at Sugar Grove Nature Center, McLean, IL on 8/24/2017
Image type: Narrowband HA-OIII (RB) 10x600ea The green channel was synthetized.
Hardware: AT8RC, SBIG ST8300M
Software: Nebulosity, CCDStack, Photoshop CS6, Images Plus
My first shot of the bird. Also called the Median Egret, Smaller Egret, or Yellow-billed Egret. It is a medium-sized Heron that is a resident breeder from east Africa across the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia and Australia. The Intermediate Egret stalks its prey methodically in shallow coastal or fresh water, including flooded fields. It eats fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects.
An injured Egret, enjoying the water that's running over the dam wall. The water hasn't run over the wall for the last two years. It's great to see this again. Hopefully, more birds will arrive shortly to enjoy the fishing. Fogg Dam, Northern Territory, Australia
This medium-sized heron in the genus Egretta or Mesophoyx is a resident breeder from east Africa across the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia and Australia. Size-wise this Egret sits between the Great Egret and the smaller white Egrets like the Little Egret and Cattle Egret.
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Intermediate egret
Scientific Name: Ardea intermedia
Description: The plumage of the Intermediate Egret is wholly white. During the breeding season, adults have long filamentous plumes emerging from the scapulars, and dense plumes from the breast. The bare parts vary with the stage of the breeding cycle: during courtship the bill is deep pink to bright red with a yellow tip and green base, the lores are bright green, the eyes red and the legs ruby red; when laying, the bill is dull red, the lores are dull, pale green, and the eye is yellow. By the time of hatching, the bill is dull orange-yellow, the lores are yellow or green-yellow, the eye is yellow and the upper portion of the leg yellow with the lower portion grey-black. During non-breeding season, they lose their plumes, the bill turns orange-yellow, the lores are green-yellow or yellow, the eyes are horn-coloured and the upper portions of the legs vary, with the lower portion black. Juveniles appear like non-breeding adults.
Similar Species: The Intermediate Egret is similar to Australiaâs other all-white egrets. The Little Egret is distinguished by its long, black bill. The Great Egret is distinguished by its proportionally longer neck and flat-headed appearance and has a distinct gape that extends well behind the eye. Cattle Egrets are much shorter and dumpier with a stouter bill.
Location: Within Australia, the Intermediate Egret can be found at wetlands throughout the northern third of the continent as well as the eastern third. They are generally absent from Tasmania.
Habitat: Mostly a denizen of the shallows in terrestrial wetlands, the Intermediate Egret prefers freshwater swamps, billabongs, floodplains and wet grasslands with dense aquatic vegetation, and is only occasionally seen in estuarine or intertidal habitats.
Feeding: Aquatic animals, principally fish and frogs, are the main food of the Intermediate Egret. They are usually hunted by standing and waiting, then stabbing at the prey with its dagger-like beak.
Breeding: Intermediate Egrets build a shallow platform of interwoven sticks, placed on a horizontal branch in a tree that is usually standing in water. They generally lay three or four pale-green eggs which are incubated by both sexes. The nestlings are fed by both parents, who regurgitate food, either into the nest or directly into the beak of the young bird.
(Source: birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/intermediate-egret)
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Not long after the afternoon sun broke free from the clouds that had lingered over the area for most of the day, Q39331 highballs west through the intermediates at QD117 with a pair of CP 60s in charge and three new UP deliveries trailing.
The intermediate egret (Ardea intermedia) is a medium-sized white heron with a relatively short yellow or bicolored bill and, in breeding, exceptionally long back plumes.
Shooting Raton Pass (properly) is not for the faint-hearted, but the classic Santa Fe signals and infrastructure surrounded by gorgeous landscapes was not to be passed up. Aside from Amtrak’s modern passenger equipment, Raton is truly a trip back in time.
To kick off our second day, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, train No. 3, throttles up passing the intermediate signals at Jansen shortly after departing the station at Trinidad, CO. Fresh snow from the night before and clear morning skies was a real treat.
March 11, 2022
Jansen, Colorado
C840-12 rolls north on the ex-L&N Rockhouse Subdivision past the searchlight intermediates at Coolidge.
An Intermediate Egret is momentarily still and focused on a potential meal, among the heart-shaped leaves of the Water Snowflake aquatic plant.
Intermediate Bandy-bandy (Vermicella intermedia)
First time I've ever seen one of these guys in the wild, pretty happy I got to see it so close to home!
These snakes twist themselves into vertical loops when threatened, this specimen didn't do it quite as spectacularly as others, but you can see the some some parts raised off the ground to form some shallow loops.
Also Bandy-bandy snakes spend most of their life underground and feed almost exclusively on blind snakes.