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First South Yorkshire Dennis Dart/Plaxton Pointer 40524.S519UAK in Doncaster on the 18th September 2007.
This Dart MPD suffered vandalism while in storage at a third part premises. Its seen back at the depot having been stripped of its doors and ear-marked for early withdrawal.
It was sold to a UK buyer in 2011.
Darter dragonfly in the garden. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene. This is using a Raynox MSN202 clip on diopter on the front of my Tamron90 but at max focus
The Oriental Darter is like all other anhingas, a cormorant-like species that has a very long neck. The structure of the neck is as in other species of darter with strongly developed muscles about a kink in the neck that allows it to be flexed and darted forward with rapid force to stab fish underwater. The Oriental Darter is found mainly in freshwater lakes and streams. They usually forage singly, with the entire body submerged, swimming slowly forward using their webbed feet while the head and neck is moved jerkily above the water. It darts its neck to impale fish and then brings them out of water, tossing them into the air before swallowing the fish head first. They may sometimes be found along with cormorants which share the habit of spreading out their wings to dry when perched on a waterside rock or tree.
1975 Dodge Dart Swinger
Location: Villingen, Germany
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This one was about to shout at the White-bellied Sea Eagle. Unfortunately the Eagle wasn't moved.
Impressed that the D500 locked focus here as it was fast and moving directly toward me!
Male Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum)
As it's name suggests this dragonfly is very abundant in England. It breeds in still water, even stagnant ponds, and can be seen well into November.
This fellow decided to stake out my garden pond for the day :)
I like this photograph as I rarely find British dragonflies in this near obelisk pose. He never did quite manage the full pose.
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DART treinstellen 83/8138, 83/8121 en 83/8127 als 14.32 Malahide-Greystones service. Dublin Pearse, 26 oktober 2018
DART units 83/8138, 83/8121 and 83/8127 with the 1432hrs Malahide to Greystones service. Dublin Pearse, October 26, 2018
Stagecoach 34816 (PX06 DWA) appears to be back on the old route 12 the buses used to take, but today, For a while at least, Badby Road was closed, so a now rare sight of a Dennis Dart along High Street, Braunston. I assume the buses went to Willoughby, and back to Barby via Longdown Lane?
24th March 2017
On 27th August, Seaford & District held their annual running day with vintage buses on routes 123 (Lewes - Seaford) and 124 (Lewes - Eastbourne).
Operator: Maidstone & District (P238MKN Group)
Type: Dennis Dart
Vehicle: 3238 (P238MKN)
Route: 123
Destination: Lewes
Location: Newhaven, Denton Corner
Service: 1500 Seaford - Lewes
Plenty of these friendly Darters around atm. E-M1/100-400mm.
Press L for a larger and nicer view :-)
Popped up to the buses this afternoon (well these two), seen here together are Dennis Dart 455 and Volvo B10BLE 228.
This family is very closely related to the other families in the suborder Sulae, i.e. the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants and shags) and the Sulidae (gannets and boobies). Cormorants and anhingas are extremely similar as regards their body and leg skeletons and may be sister taxa. In fact, several anhinga fossils were initially believed to be cormorants or shags (see below). Some earlier authors included the darters in the Phalacrocoracidae as subfamily Anhinginae, but this is nowadays generally considered overlumping. However, as this agrees quite well with the fossil evidence some unite the Anhingidae and Phalacrocoracidae in a superfamily Phalacrocoracoidea.
The Sulae are also united by their characteristic display behavior, which agrees with the phylogeny as laid out by anatomical and DNA sequence data. While the darters' lack of many display behaviors is shared with gannets (and that of a few with cormorants), these are all symplesiomorphies that are absent in frigatebirds, tropicbirds and pelicans also. Like cormorants but unlike other birds, darters use their hyoid bone to stretch the gular sac in display. Whether the pointing display of mates is another synapomorphy of darters and cormorants that was dropped again in some of the latter, or whether it evolved independently in darters and those cormorants that do it, is not clear. The male raised-wing display seems to be a synapomorphy of the Sulae; like almost all cormorants and shags but unlike almost all gannets and boobies, darters keep their wrists bent as they lift the wings in display, but their alternating wing-waving, which they also show before take-off, is unique. That they often balance with their outstretched wings during walking is probably an autapomorphy of darters, necessitated by their being plumper than the other Sulae.
The Sulae were traditionally included in the Pelecaniformes, then a paraphyletic group of "higher waterbirds". The supposed traits uniting them, like all-webbed toes and a bare gular sac, are now known to be convergent, and pelicans are apparently closer relatives of storks than of the Sulae. Hence, the Sulae and the frigatebirds – and some prehistoric relatives – are increasingly separated as the Suliformes, which is sometimes dubbed "Phalacrocoraciformes.
This family is very closely related to the other families in the suborder Sulae, i.e. the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants and shags) and the Sulidae (gannets and boobies). Cormorants and anhingas are extremely similar as regards their body and leg skeletons and may be sister taxa. In fact, several anhinga fossils were initially believed to be cormorants or shags (see below). Some earlier authors included the darters in the Phalacrocoracidae as subfamily Anhinginae, but this is nowadays generally considered overlumping. However, as this agrees quite well with the fossil evidence[14] some unite the Anhingidae and Phalacrocoracidae in a superfamily Phalacrocoracoidea.[15]
The Sulae are also united by their characteristic display behavior, which agrees with the phylogeny as laid out by anatomical and DNA sequence data. While the darters' lack of many display behaviors is shared with gannets (and that of a few with cormorants), these are all symplesiomorphies that are absent in frigatebirds, tropicbirds and pelicans also. Like cormorants but unlike other birds, darters use their hyoid bone to stretch the gular sac in display. Whether the pointing display of mates is another synapomorphy of darters and cormorants that was dropped again in some of the latter, or whether it evolved independently in darters and those cormorants that do it, is not clear. The male raised-wing display seems to be a synapomorphy of the Sulae; like almost all cormorants and shags but unlike almost all gannets and boobies, darters keep their wrists bent as they lift the wings in display, but their alternating wing-waving, which they also show before take-off, is unique. That they often balance with their outstretched wings during walking is probably an autapomorphy of darters, necessitated by their being plumper than the other Sulae.[16]
The Sulae were traditionally included in the Pelecaniformes, then a paraphyletic group of "higher waterbirds". The supposed traits uniting them, like all-webbed toes and a bare gular sac, are now known to be convergent, and pelicans are apparently closer relatives of storks than of the Sulae. Hence, the Sulae and the frigatebirds – and some prehistoric relatives – are increasingly separated as the Suliformes, which is sometimes dubbed "Phalacrocoraciformes
This poor bird dropped the fish when I came up on her. Here she has made a valliant return to retrieve the fish, she unfortunately dropped it in the water when she ran into a few pelicans sitting in the water waiting. The fish then swam away. Poor Darter she doesn't look happy here
Loads of these on all the woodwork at Strumpshaw.
Easy time of the year to shoot them at close range.
Resting the lens on the Gate for best quality ;-)
Indian Darter (Ahinga melanogaster) is a resident in Sri Lanka. An adult. Belongs to Ahingidae family. Clicked at Hiyare Nature Reserve, Sri Lanka