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I am not sure whether it is Ruddy or Common. Both were present.
The pool Kings Wood Trentham
Staffordshire UK 30th June 2025
Poison dart frogs are small, brilliantly colored, South American rainforest amphibians known for their toxic skin, which protects them from predators and gives them their name, as indigenous peoples once used the poison on hunting darts. They are active during the day (diurnal), feeding on small insects like ants and beetles, and possess sticky pads on their toes for climbing. Their vivid aposematic coloration serves as a clear warning of their danger, with the potency of their poison varying by species.
Key Characteristics
Toxic Skin: They secrete potent toxins from their skin, which can paralyze or kill predators.
Vibrant Colors: Poison dart frogs display bright, bold colors (yellow, red, blue, green, etc.) as a warning signal to other animals, a trait known as aposematic coloration.
Size: They are generally small, with most species growing to only one or two inches long.
Habitat: They live in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, often on the ground.
Behavior: Unlike most frogs, they are diurnal, meaning they are active during the day.
Diet: They are insectivores, primarily eating ants, beetles, and other small insects found on the forest floor.
Foot Structure: They lack webbing between their toes but have adhesive pads for climbing.
Origin of the Name
The name "poison dart frog" comes from the traditional practice of some indigenous peoples in Colombia and other regions using the frogs' potent toxins to coat the tips of their blow darts for hunting.
Toxicity and Diet
A frog's poison is derived from the insects it eats.
Different species have varying levels of toxicity; some are only slightly poisonous, while others, like the golden poison dart frog, are among the most toxic animals on Earth.
After walking around for almost two hours and not being able to take any decent photos, I encountered this dragonfly shortly before getting home. It kind of saved my day. I shot at different angles, with different backgrounds and under different lighting conditions. Hope you like them.
P.S.: I am new to my dragonflies. If I am wrong about the species, please let me know.
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The Oriental darter or Indian darter (Anhinga melanogaster) is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It has a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed bill and, like the cormorant, it hunts for fish while its body is submerged in water. It spears a fish underwater, bringing it above the surface, tossing and juggling it before swallowing the fish head first. The body remains submerged as it swims, and the slender neck alone is visible above the water, which accounts for the colloquial name of snakebird. Like the cormorants, it has wettable feathers and it is often found perched on a rock or branch with its wings held open to dry.
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Australasian Darter
Anhinga novaehollandiae
Anhingidae
Description: The Darter is a large, slim water bird with a long snake-like neck, sharp pointed bill, and long, rounded tail. Male birds are dark brownish black with glossy black upperwings, streaked and spotted white, silver-grey and brown. The strongly kinked neck has a white or pale brown stripe from the bill to where the neck kinks and the breast is chestnut brown. Females and immatures are grey-brown above, pale grey to white below, with a white neck stripe that is less distinct in young birds. The Darter is often seen swimming with only the snake-like neck visible above the water, or drying its wings while perched on a tree or stump over water. While its gait is clumsy on land, it can soar gracefully to great heights on thermals, gliding from updraft to updraft. It has a cross-shaped silhouette when flying.
Distribution: In Australia, the Darter is found from Adelaide, South Australia, to Tennant Creek, Northern Territory and then to Broome, Western Australia. it is also found in south-western Australia, from Perth to Esperance. Worldwide, it has been thought of as one of two mainAnhinga species (the other, A. anhinga, is found in North America), found in the southern half of Africa, Madagascar, Iraq, Pakistan, India, south-east Asia, Indonesia and New Guinea. However, A. melanogaster is now considered to be further divided into three species, with rufa being found in Africa, melanogaster in south Asia and novaehollandiae in New Guinea and Australia (the Australasian Darter).
Habitat: The Darter is found in wetlands and sheltered coastal waters, mainly in the Tropics and Subtropics. It prefers smooth, open waters, for feeding, with tree trunks, branches, stumps or posts fringing the water, for resting and drying its wings. Most often seen inland, around permanent and temporary water bodies at least half a metre deep, but may be seen in calm seas near shore, fishing. The Darter is not affected by salinity or murky waters, but does require waters with sparse vegetation that allow it to swim and dive easily. It builds its nests in trees standing in water, and will move to deeper waters if the waters begin to dry up.
Feeding: The Darter catches fish with its sharp bill partly open while diving in water deeper than 60 cm. The fish is pierced from underneath, flicked onto the water's surface and then swallowed head first. Smaller items are eaten underwater and large items may be carried to a convenient perch and then swallowed. Insects and other aquatic animals, including tortoises, may also be eaten, as well as some vegetable matter. In hot weather, adult birds may pour water from their bills into the gullets of their young chicks when they are still in the nest.
Breeding: The Darter is usually a solitary bird, forming pairs only while breeding. Breeding is erratic, happening whenever water levels and food supplies are suitable, but most often occurs in spring and summer. Nests are usually solitary, but Darters may nest within loose colonies with other water birds that nest in trees, such as cormorants, spoonbills and ibis. The male decorates a nest-site with green leafy twigs and displays to attract a mate, with elaborate wing-waving and twig-grasping movements. The male carries most of the nest material to the nest-site, which is normally in the fork of a tree standing in water, usually about 3.5 m above the water's surface. Both sexes complete the nest, incubate the eggs and raise the young. Chicks are kept warm by brooding continously (or cooled down by shading with spread wings) for up to a week after hatching and both adults stay in the nest with the chicks overnight. In hot weather, the adults will even shake water over the chicks after a swim. Chicks can swim after about four weeks in the nest and start to fly at about 50 days.
(Source: www.birdlife.org.au)
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Common Darter catching some late season rays at Crowle Moors.
Still around 50+ hanging on at Crowle despite the recent frosts.
Still plenty of food around for them. No sightings of Hawkers or Black Darters : (
Crowle Moors nature reserve, Lincolnshire, England.
2nd Nov 2018.
Here's a walk down Memory Lane for all you (North American) retro classic car buffs and enthusiasts.
This paint colour and insignia will undoubtedly be all that's needed to trigger your mind's eye into remembering the exact car, make and model.
The classic Dodge Dart came in a variety of engines from the 6 cylinder model right up to the screaming hemi.
The most popular, muscle Darts were those of 4th generation 1968-1976.
MOPAR or no CAR, as the Dodge owners say :)
Currently I am involved in a restore of a 1968 Dodge Dart.
She was purchased as a complete surprise by family for my last birthday.
In my younger days, muscle cars were a huge part of my youth.
I conjointly built some lean, mean muscle machines and did some recreational racing, that included racing on the quarter mile track.
I owned a 1968 Dodge Charger and to this day, I am still kicking my own ass for not keeping the classic and ever loved car that began the muscle car era - The GTO.
Mine was a 1966
Over the hot summer months, my plans include posting some of the beautiful cars and trucks that cross my path and capture both my eye and heart.
In return, I will display them proudly in hopes that other people may have a chance to enjoy their beauty as well.
.......and hopefully, by next summer I may even have some of my own car to display.
I know this specific image will attract a limited audience and for those that may be interested, I have including my Classic Cars & Hot Rod album.
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A female common darter.
I'll be mostly offline for a couple of days celebrating one of those big birthdays with a zero ... Or as a friend put it, "That's a good age Jan.... vintage." :-O
HBBBT and have a great weekend when it comes! :)
Scarlet Darters colonised this lake at Silverlake in Dorset last year, becoming the first Site with a population in the uk. Great to see the offspring form last year looking like they are establishing a thriving population.
Ruddy Darter Daradonfly,Again from last months visit to Anglesey at Cors Goch north Wales wildlife trust reserve.
Just like my grandfather's Dart. Well, actually not quite like his. The Mickey Thompson radial slicks and pro street hood scoop lead me to believe that it doesn't have a slant six with push-button automatic. Also my grandfather's Dart had a "quieter" off-white paint finish. I photographed this '62 Dodge Dart at a Hot Rod Car Show at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan this summer.
Australasian Darter
Anhinga novaehollandiae
Anhingidae
Because of its long and slender neck, the Australasian Darter is sometimes called the snakebird. Usually inhabiting freshwater wetlands, darters swim with their bodies submerged beneath the water’s surface, with only the sinuous neck protruding above the water, enhancing its serpentine qualities. Darters forage by diving to depths of about 60 centimetres, and impaling fish with its sharp, spear-like beak. Small fish are swallowed underwater, but larger ones are brought to the surface, where they are flicked off the bill (sometimes into the air) and then swallowed head-first.
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I saw a Common Darter Dragonfly yesterday, the first one of the year but didn't get a pic, was lucky today, saw this cheeky Darter and managed to get a pic, I also saw more Emperor Dragonflies too, did get one shot but not a very good one, will post later
Here we see First Bus Buses of Somerset 42969 WA56FTZ photographed on Upper Holway Road in Taunton while operating Taunton town service 6.
Not many darts left with First Buses of Somerset.
Taken February 2022.
A Sapphire-Blue Posion Dart Frog at the Lakeland Wildlife Oasis near Milnthorpe in north Lancashire.
Poison dart frogs, members of the Dendrobatidae family, wear some of the most brilliant and beautiful colors on Earth. Depending on individual habitats, which extend from the tropical forests of Costa Rica to Brazil, their coloring can be yellow, gold, copper, red, green, blue, or black. Their elaborate designs and hues are deliberately ostentatious to ward off potential predators, a tactic called aposematic coloration.
Some species display unusual parenting habits, including carrying both eggs and tadpoles on their backs. Although this "backpacking" is not unique among amphibians, male poison arrow frogs are exceptional in their care, attending to the clutch, sometimes exclusively, and performing vital transportation duties.
Dendrobatids include some of the most toxic animals on Earth. The two-inch-long (five-centimeter-long) golden poison dart frog has enough venom to kill 10 grown men. Indigenous Emberá people of Colombia have used its powerful venom for centuries to tip their blowgun darts when hunting, hence the genus' common name.
Scientists are unsure of the source of poison dart frogs' toxicity, but it is possible they assimilate plant poisons which are carried by their prey, including ants, termites and beetles. Poison dart frogs raised in captivity and isolated from insects in their native habitat never develop venom.
The medical research community has been exploring possible medicinal uses for some poison dart frog venom. They have already developed a synthetic version of one compound that shows promise as a painkiller
Passing Bedrove shops is Arriva The Shires (KE53NFG 3829) working Service Pink Route 8 to Aylesbury bus station & is seen proudly wearing the new Arriva corporate livery being the first dart to recieve this new colour. New to the Shires fleet in 2003.
Newly emerged common darter drying out in the sunshine. After a couple of false starts this insect posed perfectly for me.
This nosy bird was perched on the roof of a wetland observation platform and stuck its neck down to check me out for over a minute.
Another 'throw back' pic and a time when Darts were the bus of choice for First and Citybus.
4502 is one of 3 from the M-CCV batch being a slightly shorter length at 9 meters than the rest which were 9.8.
This one carrying the attractive Barbie hybrid type livery?! was still carrying route branding for the 66 Brixham to Torquay service but they more often than not turned up on the Tavistock runs along with the SLF Darts.