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PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 12, 2011) – Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Luis Perez, from West Palm Beach, Fla., performs routine maintenance on cable hangers in the Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department's (AIMD) jet shop on board the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Aviation machinist's mates maintain, service, adjust and replace aircraft engines and accessories. Ronald Reagan is currently underway in preparation for an upcoming deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Nicholas A. Groesch /Released)
Intermediate Egret at Warriewood Wetlands
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This was at Seikai, an ancient, gorgeous, traditional ryokan just down the street from my apartment. It took me nearly 2 years to realize this place was a ryokan--and the TAISHO EMPEROR* had stayed here 30 years earlier, when touring Shikoku! DUDE.
(back-front, left-right...)
Terumi (whose house I stayed at for 3 days), Katsue, Yaemi, Kazumi / me, Shizuko (whose house I stayed at my final night there), Mr. Kimura (Shouzou?)
* Taisho = Emperor before the current one. The time up until that Emperor's death in 1989 was the Taisho Era. Everything since then has been the Heisei Era, for the Heisei Emperor, who's the son of the Taisho Emperor.
camera- nikon D80,
lens - sigma 70-300
Details :- The Little Egret, Egretta garzetta is a small white heron. It is the Old World counterpart to the very similar New World Snowy Egret.
The adult Little Egret is 55–65 cm long with an 88–106 cm wingspan. It weighs 350–550 grams. Its plumage is all white. It has long black legs with yellow feet and a slim black bill. There is . In the breeding season, the adult has two long nape plumes and gauzy plumes on the back and breast. The bare skin between the bill and eyes becomes red or blue. Juveniles are similar to non-breeding adults but have duller legs and feet. The subspecies garzetta has yellow feet and a bare patch of grey-green skin between the bill and eyes, whereas nigripes has yellow skin between the bill and eye and blackish feet.
Little Egrets are mostly silent but make various croaking and bubbling calls at their breeding colonies and produce a harsh alarm call when disturbed.
The Little Egret nests in colonies, often with other wading birds, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs or in a reedbed or bamboo grove. In some locations such as the Cape Verde Islands, the species nests on cliffs. Pairs defend a small breeding territory, usually extending around 3–4 m from the nest. The three to five eggs are incubated by both adults for 21–25 days to hatching. They are oval in shape and have a pale, non-glossy, blue-green colour. The young birds are covered in white down feathers, are cared for by both parents and fledge after 40 to 45 days.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Egretta
Species: E. garzetta
The Intermediate Egret, Median Egret, or Yellow-billed Egret (Mesophoyx intermedia) is a medium-sized heron. It is a resident breeder from east Africa across tropical southern Asia to Australia. It often nests in colonies with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs. Two to five eggs are laid, the clutch size varying with region. This species, as its scientific name implies, is intermediate in size between the Great Egret and smaller white egrets like the Little Egret and Cattle Egret, though nearer to Little than Great. It is about 90 cm tall with all-white plumage, generally dark legs and a thickish yellow bill. Breeding birds may have a reddish or black bill, greenish yellow gape skin, loose filamentous plumes on their breast and back, and dull yellow or pink on their upper legs (regional variations). The sexes are similar.
Some taxonomists put this species in the genus Egretta or Ardea.
The Intermediate Egret stalks its prey methodically in shallow coastal or fresh water, including flooded fields. It eats fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects.
~Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary~
All photographs taken with a Canon 400D with a Sigma 70-300 lens from a boat.
Minor editing on the iPad and uploaded via Flickstackr for the iPad and iPhone.
Winners it the intermediate division of the Premier Exhibitor contest at the Youth Sheep Show during the Alabama National Fair in Montgomery Oct. 13 were Madelyn Alldredge of Blount County, first place; Nicole Williamson of Cleburne County, second; Riley Van Pelt of Cleburne County, third; Leeanna Burkhalter of Fayette County, fourth; and Harley Weathers of Cleburne County, fifth. The intermediate division is for youth ages 13 to 15. The Youth Sheep Show judge was Terry Burks with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. Alabama Farmers Federation and Alfa Insurance sponsored all youth livestock shows at the fair.