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Images captured 6 h short of 1 week later with iTelescope T17, 10 x 120 sec. A dust trail is still visible as the result of the probes impact.
see: noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2223/ for an amazing image two days after impact from SOAR telescope of the features captured in low resolution in my image. Note the three lobed ejecta resulting from the impact of DART.
Common darter, Sympetrum striolatum. Female. 7 August 2014. In the garden, Ealing, London, England, UK.
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~ A Prayer in Spring ~
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night
And make us happy in the happy bees
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill
And off a blossom in mid air stand still
For this is love and nothing else is love
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will
But which it only needs that we fulfill
~ Robert Frost ~
The little darting birds have taken over outside our front door... tonight I believe there were close to 15 or more, darting and weaving to and fro, they empty the feeder in a about a day!!! LOL!!! Time to get a couple more feeders I'm thinking.... We have one at the back of the house too off our bedroom deck, but only only little male guards that one, and it's not swarmed like the one in the front of the house! They are enjoyable to watch and a challenge to shoot....
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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.
LAKE Gregory, also known as the Isis Balancing Storage or simply as the "Duckpond" is a small impoundment between Bundaberg & Childers. It is a mere 200 ha in area with an average depth of 3.1 meters & holds just over 6000 ML of water at full capacity.
Officially stocked with only Bass & Silver Perch, several captures of Saratoga & Tarpon have been reported. Being a shallow lake, weed beds dominate the fringes and can be a menace to anglers although there are some deeper sections up to 30 feet.
A Stocked Impoundment Permit (SIP) is required to fish Lake Gregory.
The Sacramento Drowning Accident Rescue Team (DART) utilizes this 1997 Ford F-350 crew cab as the primary boat towing vehicle and for carrying misc. equipment. This is the only vehicle in the fleet that was purchased new by the team.
Darter dragonfly on a wall. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/14997883051/ for a 3D version
MV Dart Venture
The River Dart Steamboat Co Ltd (RDSC) and its predecessors, the Dartmouth Steam Packet Company and the Dartmouth and Torbay Steam Packet Company, were the major ferry and excursion boat operators on the River Dart in South Devon for 120 years, until the company's demise in 1976. The company was famous for its distinctive paddle steamers, which were a familiar sight on the river until the late 1960s.
History
(UK)United Kingdom
NameMV Plymouth Venturer, MV Dart Venturer
Owner:
Plymouth Boat Cruises (1982)
Dart Pleasure Craft Ltd(2002)
Route
Plymouth(1982)
River Dart (2002)
BuilderMashfords, Plymouth, UK
Launched: 1982
Status: Operating on the River Dart between Dartmouth and Totnes
General characteristics
Type: Twin-Screw Motor Vessel
Tonnage: 94 GRT
Length: 83 ft (25 m) LOA
Decks: 3
Propulsion: Twin 170hp Diesels
Speed: 11 Kts
Capacity: 300 Passengers
First phone photo of the year is of Stagecoach South West 35171 WA56FKY photographed waiting time at East the Water Tesco while operating Bideford town route 15 between East the Water and Affinity Outlet shopping centre. There is only 2 of these vehicles now left in Barnstaple Depot in North Devon.
Taken 3rd January 2025.
Possibly a young bird. It landed on the island we were on, soon detected our presence and then departed.
A driver change-over at London Road for Dennis Dart SLF, Plaxton Pointer SPD number 61 (SK52 OGE) on Service 1.
Few pubic service buses today have a straight vertical drop at the front and this is one of the reasons I like the Dennis Darts. Almost everything else slopes a little and (changing the mode of transport for a mo) this is why I tend to prefer electric train Class 156's and 158's much more to the sloping 170's.
Back to the Dart and what else is there to like? Well the sound of the engine is a bit like my Hoover Senior vacuum cleaner (it's older than I am!) and you can hear them before seeing them!
Oh and they're quite cosy too, especially the back seat in the corner on the near side. Some of them are indeed a trifle whiny but then we can't have everything!
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Couldn't resist this one! This is the interior of Red Eagle W411UGM, a veteran Dart new to TGM before being absorbed into the Travel London fleet, and I think into the Abellio era.
It was working on Route R2 and I did it from Watford out to the Cassiobury superb, been a few years since I rode a bus with the door permanently open, reminds me of going to school on SNBs in those easier times.
Oh and no prizes for deducing it was formerly dual doored...
VH45184 Charing Cross Stn-Oxford St 139
TEH1219 Oxford St-St Johns Wood 113
TE845 St Johns Wood-Hendon Central 113
TE847 Hendon Central-Mill Hill Circus 113
DW285 Mill Hill Broadway-Edgware 221
VLA176 Edgware-Stanmore 142
VLA175 Stanmore-Bushey Heath 142
VLA168 Bushey Heath-Watford 258
6523 Watford-Rickmansworth 320
6526 Rickmansworth-Croxley Green 320
6528 Croxley Green-Rickmansworth 320
6525 Rickmansworth-Watford 320
W411UGM Watford-Cassiobury Rd R2
6522 Cassiobury Rd-Rickmansworth 320
6527 Rickmansworth-Watford 320
350109 Watford Jn-Euston
HV94 Warren St-Trafalgar Square 29
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.
This one was quite happy to sit and have his portrait taken.
Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire 35246 (PX65 CWM) turns out of Crosthwaite Road as it enters Keswick on 22 April 2017. The bus is an Alexander Pointer Dennis Dart working the 554 Carlisle – Keswick service.
An early production Dennis Dart, J459JOW was new to Wealden Beeline Bus & Coach Services from Kent. It carries a Wadham-Stringer "Portsdown" service bus body, which was an uncommon choice for this type of PSV vehicle.It passed from the original owners to Capital Citybus and ended up with a First Group company, who's livery it is seen in here.
Now owned by Wealden PSV Sales/Autocar, it remains in outside storage in Cheshire, pending a decision as to its future, whilst its condition deteriorates.