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Darter (Anhinga melanogaster)
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.
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 main Anhinga 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).
Nelson Park, Alexandra Headland, Qld. Australia
The Delta-Dart is essentially an F-35-like fighter sandwiched between some rockets. Nothing could go wrong!
Oh how wonderful, my first happy little darter of the season. They are a joy to photograph..great little posers that smile for the camera ..although this one just turned it's head away as I took the shot!
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The 5th of January 2010 and the snow is still thick on the ground in
Edinburgh.
Here is the last Dennis Dart with a 52 registration plate (except for the
new 75 which was rebuilt after its fire early in 2003) and also (as of
early 2010) the last to be based at Marine.
The location is the portion of road for buses only
situated beside the terminus at the Jewel, at the east end of the city near
the A1 by-pass. I never thought I'd be able to write about the King's Park,
otherwise known as Arthur's Seat in my bus stories and behold, behind Dart
85, here the very hill reputed to be a dead volcano.
Arthur's Seat is the main peak of the group of hills which form most of
Holyrood Park, a wild piece of highland landscape in the centre of the city
of Edinburgh, about a mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle. The hill rises
above the city to a height of 251 m (820 ft), provides excellent panoramic
views of the city, is quite easy to climb, and is a popular walk. Though it
can be climbed from almost any direction, the easiest and simplest ascent is
from the East, where a grassy slope rises above Dunsapie Loch.
Many claim that its name is a derivation of a myriad of legends pertaining
to King Arthur.
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Former Severn & Canal Carrying Company “Motor No. 2” of 1928, latterly “Dart” of the Thomas Clayton (Oldbury) Ltd fleet. She is seen here at Puttenham, benefiting from the specialist wooden boat repair skills of Bates Boatyard. 28th March 2012.
Dart 65 looking like she's lying in a box of soft cotton wool!
Lovely to capture this scene with the snow so thick and fresh, no traffic around and just see this destination screen with it's roller blinds.
For me Lothian's destination screens are the saving grace these days and it's nice not to have neon electronic screens. There can't be too many companies left to have screens like these.
The other thing I so like about the single decker Darts is the vertical drop from top to bottom - in a world where buses are becoming more and more sloping at the front this is a refreshing joy to see.
While I stood in the snow here, virtually alone, the silence all around me was deafening as the distinctive engine of this lonely looking Dart purred towards me.
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Common Dart
Potanthus pseudomaesa, commonly known as the Indian Dart, Common Dart or Pseudomaesa Dart, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Thanks to Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi for the ID confirmation
Ruddy Darter - Sculthorpe Moor Hawk & Owl Trust reserve, Norfolk. Finally getting to the end of going through my Summer holiday snaps!
A darter dragonfly visited the garden yesterday. Gave me an opportunity to try my new 5Dmk2 / MPE-65 combo. Natural light /fill flash
Upper Dart valley, autumn flood. Top of Sharrah Pool. Dartmoor National Park.
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Sunday, 05 April 2015
4 car LHB DART set at Bayside on the Howth Branch with the 1055hrs DART service from Howth to Bray.
© Finbarr O'Neill
In New World First Bus, there are different lengths of Dennis Dart. 10.7 M is one of the lengths. One of them was on route number 971.
Slanghalsvoel
(Anhinga rufa)
The African darter (Anhinga rufa), sometimes called the snakebird, is a water bird of sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq.
The African darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American (Anhinga anhinga), Oriental (Anhinga melanogaster), and Australasian (Anhinga novaehollandiae) darters.
The male is mainly glossy black with white streaking, but females and immature birds are browner. The African darter differs in appearance from the American darter most recognisably by its thin white lateral neck stripe against a rufous background colour. The pointed bill should prevent confusion with cormorants.
It is an 80 cm long cormorant-like fish-eating species with a very long neck, like other anhingas.
The African darter is found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of water occur; overall the species remains widespread and common.
One subspecies, the Levant darter (Anhinga rufa chantrei), occurred at Lake Amik (Amik Gölü) in south-central Turkey, in Hula valley lake and marshes in northern Israel and in the Mesopotamian Marshes of the lower Euphrat and Tigris rivers in southern Iraq. The Turkish population disappeared during the 1930s and the Israeli population during Hula drainage in the 1950s. It was feared that it also had disappeared from Iraq, but a small and threatened population remains at least in the Hawizeh Marshes (part of the Mesopotamian Marshes), which are also home to numerous other waters birds such as little grebe, pygmy cormorant, marbled teal and sacred ibis.
This species builds a stick nest in a tree and lays 3–6 eggs. It often nests with herons, egrets and cormorants.
It often swims with only the neck above water, hence the common name snakebird. This, too, is a habit shared with the other anhingas.
Unlike many other waterbirds the feathers of the African darter do not contain any oil and are therefore not waterproof. Because of this, the bird is less positively buoyant and its diving capabilities are enhanced. After diving for fish, the feathers can become waterlogged. In order to be able to fly and maintain heat insulation, it needs to dry its feathers. Thus the African darter is often seen sitting along the waterside spreading its wings and drying its feathers in the wind and the sun along with cormorants which may share its habitat.
Wikipedia
or Oriental Darter
local name 'Udoi Goyar'
Baikka beel, Sreemangal
25th December' 09
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DART 8 is a recent acquisition by the Drowning Accident Rescue Team (DART). It was previously Sacramento Fire Department Boat 8.
Christmas Eve 2009 and here's one of 50 Dennis Darts brought into service from 2002. Number 57 creeps through the slippery cobbled streets of the New Town at Eyre Place. Darts 54 to 63 (along with an earlier Dart number 188) can easily be found on service 36. Three more Darts, numbers 51, 52 and 53 are no longer in public service and are used as training vehicles in yellow livery (TB51 - 53).
Very often residents of the Georgian New Town are treated to Volvo buses as well, but the area between Broughton and the Dean Bridge often proves to be a testing experience for even the most experienced driver, such are the narrow streets often heavily congested with traffic and pedestrians. In conditions like these it's a even more tricky.
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Greenway, also known as Greenway House, is an estate on the River Dart near Galmpton in Devon, England. Once the home of famed mystery author Agatha Christie, it is now owned by the National Trust.
Southern Vectis 3329 (HW54 DCE), ex-Wightbus 5862, unloads at Newport having come in on a 1.
I took some shots of it as I didn't think I had any of this ex-Wightbus MPD, but it turns out I did and I was thinking of the other one!
Note the comparison in OmniCity rears to the right, with 1142 (HW09 BBU) in old style and 1104 (HW08 AOT) on the far right wearing the new application.
Newport bus station, Newport, Isle of Wight.
2011 Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 Dart integral body/chassis with a Cummins ISBe 4.5 litre inline 4 diesel engine, Reg.YX61BXJ of ASD Coaches on a NHS Shuttle Bus service to Chatham Hospital at Chatham Quays, 28 October 2022.
Originally introduced in 2003 by Transbus (formed in 2000 by the merger of Alexander, Dennis and Plaxton) as a replacement for the Plaxton Pointer 2 body, the Alexander ALX200 body, and the Dennis Dart SLF chassis, the Transbus Enviro 200 Dart was effectively a semi-integral bus employing an updated version of the ALX200 body and Dart SLF chassis combination. However, available options were the Enviro 200 body with the MAN 14.240 chassis; or the Enviro 200 chassis with the Optare Esteem or MCV Evolution bodies. Production stopped in 2018.