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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.
The intermediate egret, median egret, smaller egret, or yellow-billed egret (Ardea intermedia) is a medium-sized heron. Some taxonomists put the species in the genus Egretta or Mesophoyx. It is a resident breeder from east Africa across the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia and Australia.
Messier 106 or NGC 4258 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It lies at a distance of 23.7 million light years. Imaged over 4 nights, the 18th 19th 21st and 26th of April 2020. The Ha data I combined with the red for processing.
EQ6-R-PRO
190mm MN DS-PRO
QHY183M Gain11 Offset76 for Ha Gain16
Baader 7nm Ha narrowband filter and LRGB filter set
Ha 10 x 300sec subs
Lum 103 x 120sec
RGB 10 x 180sec each channel
Total acquisition time 5hrs46min
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop
“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.” - Alan Alda
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.
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.
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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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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
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.
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
Die sogenannte "Pferdelok" von TXLogistik bespannte am 09. Oktober 2024 den KLV-Zug DGS 43155 von Köln Eifeltor nach Verona Q.E. bis Kufstein. An der von mir gerne aufgesuchten Stelle bei Brannenburg sind es nur noch wenige Kilometer bis zur österreichischen Grenze und das Zwischenziel des Zuges ist bald erreicht. Dort wurde dann auf zwei Mehrsystem-Loks umgespannt, um die Fahrt über den Brennerpass zu bewältigen.
The so-called ‘horse locomotive’ from TXLogistik hauled the intermodal train DGS 43155 from Cologne Eifeltor to Verona Q.E. to Kufstein on 9 October 2024. At the spot near Brannenburg, which I like to visit, it is only a few kilometres to the Austrian border and the train's intermediate destination is soon reached. There, the train was transferred to two multi-system locomotives to master the drive over the Brenner Pass.
The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut was built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.[b] Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture.[c] Its three massive terraces rise above the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari. Hatshepsut's tomb, KV20, lies inside the same massif capped by El Qurn, a pyramid for her mortuary complex. At the edge of the desert, 1 km (0.62 mi) east, connected to the complex by a causeway, lies the accompanying valley temple. Across the river Nile, the whole structure points towards the monumental Eighth Pylon, Hatshepsut's most recognizable addition to the Temple of Karnak and the site from which the procession of the Beautiful Festival of the Valley departed. Its axes identify the temple's twin functions: Its central east-west axis served to receive the barque of Amun-Re at the climax of the festival, while its north-south axis represented the life cycle of the pharaoh from coronation to rebirth.
The terraced temple was constructed between Hatshepsut's seventh and twentieth regnal years, during which building plans were repeatedly modified. In its design, it was heavily influenced by the adjacent Temple of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh Dynasty built six centuries earlier.[d] In the arrangement of its chambers and sanctuaries, though, the temple is wholly unique. The central axis, customarily reserved for the mortuary complex, is occupied instead by the sanctuary of the barque of Amun-Re, with the mortuary cult being displaced south to form the auxiliary axis with the solar cult complex to the north. Separated from the main sanctuary are shrines to Hathor and Anubis, which lie on the middle terrace. The porticoes that front the terrace here host the most notable reliefs of the temple – those of the expedition to the Land of Punt and the divine birth of Hatshepsut which form the backbone of her case to rightfully occupy the throne as a member of the royal family and as godly progeny. Below, the lowest terrace leads to the causeway and the valley temple.
The state of the temple has suffered over time. Two decades after Hatshepsut's death, under the direction of Thutmose III, references to her rule were erased, usurped, or obliterated. The campaign was intense but brief, quelled after two years when Amenhotep II was enthroned. The reasons behind the proscription remain a mystery. A personal grudge appears unlikely as Thutmose III had waited twenty years to act. Perhaps the concept of a female king was anathema to ancient Egyptian society, or a dynastic dispute between the Ahmosid and Thutmosid lineages needed resolving. In the Amarna Period, the temple was defaced again when Akhenaten ordered the images of Egyptian gods, particularly those of Amun, to be erased. These damages were repaired subsequently under Tutankhamun, Horemheb and Ramesses II. An earthquake in the Third Intermediate Period caused further harm. During the Ptolemaic period, the sanctuary of Amun was restructured, and a new portico was built at its entrance. A Coptic monastery of Saint Phoibammon was built between the 6th and 8th centuries AD, and images of Christ were painted over original reliefs. The latest graffito left is dated to c. 1223.
The temple resurfaces in the records of the modern era in 1737 with Richard Pococke, a British traveller, who visited the site. Several visitations followed though serious excavation was not conducted until the 1850s and 60s under Auguste Mariette. The temple was fully excavated between 1893 and 1906 during an expedition of the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) directed by Édouard Naville. Further efforts were carried out by Herbert E. Winlock and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) from 1911 to 1936, and by Émile Baraize and the Egyptian Antiquities Service (now the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)) from 1925 to 1952. Since 1961, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) has carried out extensive consolidation and restoration works throughout the temple, and it was opened to the public in March 2023.
The Ffestiniog Railway is a 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a major tourist attraction located mainly within the Snowdonia National Park.
The railway is roughly 13 1⁄2 miles (21.7 km) long and runs from the harbour at Porthmadog to the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, travelling through forested and mountainous scenery. The line is single track throughout with four intermediate passing places. The first mile of the line out of Porthmadog runs atop an embankment called the Cob, which is the dyke of the Traeth Mawr polder.
The Festiniog Railway Company, which owns the railway, is the oldest surviving railway company in the world. It also owns the Welsh Highland Railway, which was re-opened fully in 2011. The two railways share the same track gauge and meet at Porthmadog station, with occasional trains working the entire 40-mile (64 km) route from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Caernarfon. (Wikipedia)
A rare look inside the "Radio Center" building in Tokyo's Akihabara ("Electric Town") district. The site was one of the early homes to Tokyo's postwar radio and electronics boom. The building itself is about 50 years old.
秋葉原電波会館にて（道側から旧「古炉奈」に上がる階段。）
South of Tuam, was the one intermediate rural station of Ballygluin on the section to Athenry. Opened in 1860 as part of the Athenry and Tuam Railway. The station is now best remembered as “Castletown’ in the opening scene of John Forde’s original Irish ‘Rom Com’ the 1952 academy award winning movie “The Quiet Man featuring John Wayne.
Here’s 'Ballygluin’ as ‘Castletown’ in it’s heyday in the opening scenes of the movie the day Hollywood came to town..
Back in 1997, Ballygluin was still in relatively good condition, it seeing it’s last trains only a few years earlier, Faded CIE & Westrail posters still adorned the platforms, It’s Signal box, now overgrown & roofless good shed remained. Happily in recent years it has been restored as a visitor centre for the film and it’s future looks secure. At some stage it might see trains again even if only heritage again calling at this charming rural station.
More info on the restoration & visitor centre here..
A colour tinted version of my original Black & White shot from 1997 - T- Max 400 Asa - Red filter - Nikkormat/Nikkor 28mm
Non-breeding adult is distinguished from similar looking Great Egret by smaller size, considerably shorter bill, shorter and less distinctly kinked neck.
Ardea intermedia
A bird that I often see and rarely photograph, and thus I was happy to photograph it 'on the wing'.
It wasn't a particularly cheap experience but I decided that I couldn't pass the cable car that takes people from the Southern Ridges across to Sentosa Island. It was a remarkable trip!
The intermediate station is in the top of the building that houses a large shopping centre. I believe this is unique anywhere in the world