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Eurasian Wigeon EUWI (Anas penelope)
X American Wigeon AMWI (Anas americana)
Near mouth of Reay Creek
Bazan Bay
Sidney BC.
DSCN1205 EUWI X AMWI hybrid
This could be a back cross which favours EUWI
Typically hybrids show a stronger "AMWI" line differentiating 2 tones on face
Is this a bird ...
i had hoped to see again ??? hmmm... See comment box
however
Here are my surmisings
Red tones show that EUWI is involved and the lack of definition would seem to indicate a possible EUWI back cross
All the speckling and other face tones indicate AMWI influence
The flanks /sides are nicely intermediate between grey tones of EUWI and purple tones of AMWI
Further photo doc. of this bird before all the Wigeons migrate North , could be very interesting.
Would love to see what "prime" breeding plumage looks like.
FUN BIRD
Clear sky! Finally!! ;)
NGC 6946 is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 22.5 million light-years
NGC 6939 is an open cluster in the constellation Cepheus, lies approximately 4.000 light years away and it is over a billion years old.
Scope: Skywatcher EVOSTAR 80ED DS-Pro
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT
Camera: QHY168C
Filter Optolong L-PRO MAX Luminosity
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Guiding scope: SW 9x50 finderscope
29x600s at -10°C (145 minutes)
20 darks
20 bias
20 flats
Second-largest of the egrets, working the edge of a lagoon in the Minnippi Wetland. I had originally ID'd as Great, but I think I can see breast plumes as well as those on the back.
Our Daily Challenge ... hobbies.
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.
Thanks to my friend Tyler for the chance to see some rare power on CP in the year 2013! CP 9134 & SOO 6044.
The de Havilland DH.88 Comet was a twin-engined British aircraft designed for the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race. Three examples took part in the race and one of them won it. The type set many aviation records during the race and afterwards, as a pioneer mail plane. The modern features and clean lines of the DH.88, especially in the striking colours of Grosvenor House (shown here), the race winner, make it a true design classic.
Three orders were indeed received, and de Havilland set to work. The airframe consisted of a wooden skeleton clad with spruce plywood, with a final fabric covering on the wings. A long streamlined nose held the main fuel tanks, with the low-set and fully glazed central two-seat cockpit faired into an unbroken line to the tail. The wings were of a thin cantilever monoplane design for high-speed flight, and as such would require stressed-skin construction to achieve sufficient strength. While other designers were turning to metal to provide this extra strength, de Havilland took the unusual approach of increasing the strength of all-wood construction. De Havilland achieved the skin profile using many thin, shaped pieces set side by side, and then overlaid in the manner of plywood. This was made possible only by the recent discovery of high-strength synthetic bonding resins and its success took many in the industry by surprise.
The engines were uprated versions of the standard Gipsy Six, being tuned for best performance with a higher compression ratio. The DH.88 could maintain altitude up to 4,000 ft (1,200 m) on one engine. The propellers were two-position variable pitch, manually set to fine before takeoff using a bicycle pump and changed automatically to coarse by a pressure sensor. The main undercarriage retracted upwards and backwards into the engine nacelles, while the tailskid did not retract. Later examples and rebuilds would feature a castoring tail wheel.
The DH.88 might have been the only wooden British high-performance monoplane, but for a shortage of metal for aircraft construction during the Second World War. Experience with the DH.88 would later be put to use in designing the DH.98 Mosquito, also a twin-engined monoplane of wooden construction. The Mosquito was not simply the 1935 proposal revisited but was a much bigger and more powerful aircraft powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin engines delivering over twice the power of the Gipsy Sixes.
Grosvenor House:-
The scarlet G-ACSS was the property of Mr A.O.Edwards and was named Grosvenor House after the hotel which he managed. The crew were C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black. When the Mollisons ran into problems at Karachi, Scott and Campbell Black took over the lead and were first into Allahabad. Despite a severe storm over the Bay of Bengal they reached Singapore safely, eight hours ahead of the DC-2.
They took off for Darwin, but over the Timor Sea lost power in the port engine when the oil pressure dropped to zero. Repairs at Darwin got them going again, although continuing oil warnings caused them to fly the last two legs with one engine throttled back. Their lead was unassailable despite this, and after the final mandatory stop and more engine work at Charleville they flew on to cross the finish line at Flemington Racecourse (in Melbourne) at 3.33 p.m. (local time) on 23 October. Their official time was 71 hours 18 seconds.
Also named 'Comet' was the Ford Motor Company's 'Intermediate' model under the Mercury marque. Though considered an intermediate, the Comet was in many ways, just a long wheelbase compact, based on the Falcon. The 1964 model update was enlarged from the first generation 1960-63 model, and replaced the unsuccessful Mercury Meteor (based on the Ford Fairlane) in the intermediate segment.
The performance model sub-series was known as 'Cylone', and was equipped with the V8 engine. A small number of 50 light-weight Cyclones fitted with the 427 race motor were built, and fielded in the A/FX category in Stock Car Racing.
The Comet model would remain on as Mercury's intermediate until the end of 1969. The name was reused for the Mercury twin of the compact Ford Maverick in 1971 through to 1977.
The de Havilland DH88 Comet (1934) and Mercury Comet Cyclone Hardtop Coupe (1964) featured here are modelled in Lego miniland-scale for Flickr LUGNuts 79th Build Challenge, - "LUGNuts goes Wingnuts", - featuring automotive vehicles named after, inspired by, or related to aircraft.
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
....from a visit to Buckley's Hole. Buckley's Hole Conservation Park is situated in the south-west corner of Bribie Island, the northern-most sand island in Moreton Bay, some 50 kilometres north of Brisbane. The park covers an area of 87.7 hectares and contains a freshwater lagoon, woodland, open forest and beach. It is this diversity of habitat that has led to such a large number of bird species being recorded in this small area, the present total standing at 270.
Intermediate egret
Scientific Name: Ardea intermedia
Description: The Intermediate Egret is intermediate in size between the Little Egret and the Great Egret. It is white with yellow bill and grey legs. In the breeding season the bill turns reddish and it develops plumes on back and chest. Males and females are similar in appearance.
Size: 60cm - 70cm
Habitat: wetlands, swamps, flooded grassland
Food: fish, frog, crustaceans, insects
Breeding: nests in colonies in trees in swamps or mangroves. The nest is made of sticks. Lays three or four pale blue oval eggs in a stick nest. Often forms breeding colonies with other species of herons.
Range: Found in eastern and northern parts of Australia, including Victoria and most of New South Wales and Queensland, tropical north of Western Australia and Northern Territory. The Intermediate Egret is also found in Africa, India, south east Asia.
(Source: www.ozanimals.com)
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Reservist infantry candidates from the Intermediate Mortar Course practice their skill on the 81-mm mortar in the training area at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, Oromocto, New-Brunswick, December 4, 2018.
Photo: Aviator Stéphanie Labossière, Canadian Army Trials and Evaluation Unit (CATEU)
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Des membres de la Force de réserve participant au cours sur le mortier de niveau intermédiaire pratiquent leur adresse au tir de mortier de 81 mm dans le secteur d’entraînement de la Base des Forces canadiennes Gagetown, à Oromocto, au Nouveau Brunswick, le 4 décembre 2018.
Photo : Aviator Stéphanie Labossière, Unité de l'Armée canadienne d'essais et d'évaluation (UACEE)
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Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
...from a walk on the Nudgee Beach Mangrove Boardwalk on the incoming tide.
Intermediate Egret
Scientific Name: Ardea intermedia
Description: The Intermediate Egret is intermediate in size between the Little Egret and the Great Egret. It is white with yellow bill and grey legs. In the breeding season the bill turns reddish and it develops plumes on back and chest. Males and females are similar in appearance.
Size: 60cm - 70cm
Habitat: wetlands, swamps, flooded grassland
Food: fish, frog, crustaceans, insects
Breeding: nests in colonies in trees in swamps or mangroves. The nest is made of sticks. Lays three or four pale blue oval eggs in a stick nest. Often forms breeding colonies with other species of herons.
Range: Found in eastern and northern parts of Australia, including Victoria and most of New South Wales and Queensland, tropical north of Western Australia and Northern Territory. The Intermediate Egret is also found in Africa, India, south east Asia.
(Source: www.ozanimals.com)
© Chris Burns 2015
__________________________________________
All rights reserved.
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.
Passing an intermediate upper quadrant signal between Ambleside and Yantaringa is C501,C506 hauling 4MA3 goods.
the site is now part of the Ambleside crossing loop
Widespread resident. Smaller than the Great Egret, with shorter bill and neck. Black gape line does not extend beyond eye as in the Great. Bill is black and lores yellow green during courtship. (Bill black-tipped yellow and lores yellow in non-breeding adult). Usually in small flocks, but separate while foraging. Hunts chiefly by slow stalking.
Compare with the Cattle Egret, which is a little smaller than this egret.
Nikon D850, 500mm F4/E lens, f/4, 1/1200s, ISO 200.
Thanks to all of you who fave and comment on the photograph.
Lens: Samyang 12mm f/2 CS
I didn’t set out to make this particular image: the original composition was a shot of the Milky Way. This image was an unintentional result of an intermediate step in the process of compositing several exposures to capture the fireflies!
Instructions are right here:
www.flickr.com/photos/28134808@N02/sets/72157623517145445/
Here it is in action:
An Intermediate Egret in its breeding plumage. Looks quite beautiful - perfect white plumage, with a tinge of yellow near a black beak, and red eyes.
Reservist infantry candidates from the Intermediate Mortar Course practice their skill on the 81-mm mortar in the training area at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, Oromocto, New-Brunswick, December 4, 2018.
Photo: Aviator Stéphanie Labossière, Canadian Army Trials and Evaluation Unit (CATEU)
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Des membres de la Force de réserve participant au cours sur le mortier de niveau intermédiaire pratiquent leur adresse au tir de mortier de 81 mm dans le secteur d’entraînement de la Base des Forces canadiennes Gagetown, à Oromocto, au Nouveau Brunswick, le 4 décembre 2018.
Photo : Aviator Stéphanie Labossière, Unité de l'Armée canadienne d'essais et d'évaluation (UACEE)
GX03-2018-0051-010