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Wikipedia: 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.
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Bird watching is one component of my photography obsession. During the heat of summer most of the water birds I can see from my backyard disappeared ... presumably to cooler climes. However, they are starting to return and have discovered the conveniently located log on the edge of the lake.
I have never seen an Egret sitting down like this before.
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As the name would indicate, this egret fits between the Great Egret and the Little Egret, for size. This one seen in the shallows of a fresh water pond.
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。）
Amtrak 4 approaches the intermediate semaphore signals at MP 722.1 on the Raton Subdivision. Wagon Mound, an important landmark for those headed towards Santa Fe on the trail of the same name, looms in the distance.
BNSF's eastbound Provo-Denver manifest passes by the intermediate signal at MP 14.6, just west of Leyden. The train will have a clear shot to run the rest of the way in to Denver after meeting the Rocky Mountaineer at Plain.
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Galaxy NGC 6946 is nothing short of spectacular. In the last century alone, it has experienced 10 observed supernovae (the explosion of a star), earning its nickname as the Fireworks Galaxy. 🎆
In comparison, our Milky Way averages just one to two supernova events per century. This NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image shows the stars, spiral arms, and various stellar environments of NGC 6946 in phenomenal detail.
We are able to marvel at NGC 6946 as it is a face-on galaxy, which means that we see the galaxy “facing” us, rather than seeing it from the side (known as edge-on). The Fireworks Galaxy is further classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy and as a starburst galaxy. The former means the structure of NGC 6946 sits between a full spiral and a barred spiral galaxy, with only a slight bar in its center, and the latter means it has an exceptionally high rate of star formation.
The galaxy resides 25.2 million light-years away, along the border of the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus (The Swan).
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Leroy, K.S. Long
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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 Australia’s 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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I've always been fond of these Southern Railway-style intermediates with the offset lower head, but the few that remain seem to be in tough places to shoot. Either they're almost inaccessible, or like this pair there's just a very narrow window of time for when the sun angle works.
Of course, this pair is on borrowed time anyway with NS filing to tear out the CTC between Birmingham and Sheffield.
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I like bird photography. It is obvious when bird moves, the picture gets blurry a little bit. I used 500mm lens. It is quite a long lens for the bird photography. My target is to take images as sharp as I can. The longer lens is more challenging with moving subjects. The Nikon D5 has a better autofocus system and can get sharp images like this. I hope this year I take better bird images.
Egretta intermedia. Werribee wetlands. Walking back to the car with Nicole from the MCC nature outings, we crossed to the far side of the track and it let us past. Looked a bit dejected, maybe felt the same way about the awful light and cold wind.
Intermediate Egret
Ardea intermedia
June 1st, 2023
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Middle Point, Northern Territory, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon EF 600mm f4L IS III USM lens
Canon EF 1.4x III Extender
With a flick of its wings, an Intermediate Egret relocates to a fresh patch of water lilies at Fogg Dam, intent on finding its next unsuspecting prey.
A pair of KCS Southern Belle painted EMD's bring CSX ethanol train K423 south on the K&A Sub past the MP 356 intermediate signal which is set fall any day now.
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From Darwin, Northern Territory. A beautiful secretive snake that emerges on humid nights. Feeds on blind snakes.
An Intermediate Egret in his breeding plumage. Photographed at the Palmetum lagoon in North Queensland.
Intermediate Bandy Bandy Vermicellla intermedia. Stage III Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. Pre-digital image c. 2001
The base for this tessellation is identical to one of the intermediate steps of folding my Lucky Star Tessellation (independently created after Haligami designed her Day and Night Tessellation which is the same thing) and seems to be something Tomek Siwak also came up with independently. Starting from the base, you just have to pop up the onion/bulb shape.
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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)
© Chris Burns 2018
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This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying and recording without my written consent.
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