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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
Before the Transdev takeover and route shake-up an attractive East Lancs Dennis Dart is seen at the scenic Alum Chine terminus.
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.
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Stagecoach South Wales . 33612 R612SWO
Dennis Dart SLF 10.8m - Alexander ALX200
Newport Town Centre . Wednesday 05th-May-2010
Still in my opinion one of the better body styles of recent years,
A dart poison frog from the Frogs: A Chorus of Colors exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History.
Photoshop: crop, curves.
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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The all-new Dodge Dart travels down the assembly line at Chrysler Group’s Belvidere (Ill.) Assembly Plant. The Company invested $700 million in a state-of-the-art body shop and added nearly 500 jobs for production of the Dart. In addition, the plant will add a third crew of about 1,300 jobs by the third quarter of 2012.
Ex Stagecoach South Dennis Dart is now owned by Emsworth & District and carries an all-over livery for Highbury College for the campus service it maintains.
NOTE THE MAGIC TREE AIR FRESHNER HANGING FROM THE MIRROR INSIDE !! not everyday you see one of these on a bus, unless of course you know better.
Drivers of anything will know just what it feels like to negotiate this
tricky little twist at the top of St. Bernard's Crescent which can be a
total hazardous experience especially on wet or oily cobbles. There's a
further obstacle, just behind the camera here, as an awkward island makes it
hard to avoid slipping. This little one-way disaster was created some years
ago to either slow the traffic down or make drivers go elsewhere, except
that there's nowhere else to go to and from Stockbridge! It's a hopeless
arrangement and when crossing on foot you have to take third place to
traffic going up and down. The sooner that's got rid of and the road opened
up again the better.
However, it makes getting a nice shot of a Dennis Dart a little easier owing
to the speed control and here's 63 carefully making it's way up towards the
Dean Bridge and further onto the West End and Princes Street.
St. Bernard's Crescent and its associated terraces follow James Milne's
revised scheme of 1824, by which time the enthusiasm for New Town house
building had reached its height. Reference is often made to the crescent's
grandest Grecian Doric pillars that are to be found on the left side
(looking at this picture) and this is the most opulent part of the
crescent. Architectural detail is bold and the long horizontal windows,
reaching up from the ground floor, demonstrate beauty virtually unknown elsewhere
in Edinburgh. A central garden, with the main road running round the right-hand side of the crescent here, separates the secluded side of this Classical
masterpiece.
Indeed, Dr. Anderson of Edinburgh University has described St. Bernard's
Crescent as the finest street in the Capital. An address to aspire to
perhaps.
And once again passengers on bus service 36 can enjoy a route that seems
like it's been planned especially for visiting tourists!
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A Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) rail map. The map still contains opening dates for the now-open Belt Line and Downtown Rowlett extensions, also it lacks the Orange Line extension to DFW that opens on 18 August.
Circa June 2014, but dated July 2012.
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.
Nearly new MCV Evora bodied Volvo B8RLE SJ70HNK contrasts with 2002 Plaxton Pointer bodied Dennis Dart SK52OJE. The B8 now runs on a number of routes formerly operated with Darts.
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.
For a while, and Sep 2007 was part of that period, the X26/27/28 lost minibuses in the form of Metroriders in favour of Dennis Dart MPDs. Arriva NE 1798 SA52MYT was new to First Call Travel in Renfrew but was bought to update the fleet modestly in Arriva NE land, and is seen here approaching Barton.
The following year, Solos were introduced where they stayed for the next 6 years
Emirates liveried '8520' class DART EMU set as the lead car on the 12.45 Howth - Bray service, January 12th 2012. Harmonstown station.
Hounslow bus station consists of a couple of bus stops at the edge of the forecourt of Hounslow garage.
It only serves a couple of routes, with others stopping on the road outside. Some routes do lay over on the garage forecourt though - like the 116 and H32 seen here.
On the left, the 116 is Dart DPS717 (SN55 HKY).
The three OmniCitys are, from left to right, SP187 (YT10 XCL), SP35 (YN08 MRV) and SP51 (YT09 BNJ). The latter is on the 120.
Hounslow bus garage, Hounslow, Greater London.