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Common Darter, Sympetrum striolatum,
The maie abdomen is red and slightly constricted near the front.
Females and immature males are yellowish brown . In both sexes the iegs are dark brown or black with a yellow stipe on the outside This very common species breeds in still water, and flies June - October, often travelling far from the water. It perches on shrubs and hedgerows and also on the ground. Most red darters seen in England are likely to belong to this species. Individuals from the bogs and moors of Scotland and Northern Ireland have more extensive black markings on the sides of the thorax and are sometimes treated as a separate species,...
Behold a rather special sight!
Dennis Dart fleet number 69 (SK52 OJO) at the Edinburgh Filmhouse in Lothian Road on the 31st of March 2008. I am grateful to my friend Ian Dunnet for allowing me to show his splendid photograph as a guest picture on my website.
This is the first time I have seen Dart 69 and I understand as a result of a major fire in the looms it has been at Seafiled Enginering Works for the last 12 months or so. Will she ever appear again we might ask?
I spent 5 months last winter photographing all of the current Dart and Volvo single deckers in Lothian and wondered if I'd ever be able to tick this one off my list! Sadly not yet, but thanks to Ian I have included this picture in my complete set which can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_montgomery/sets/721576233314...
Ian has been working away with enormous dedication and tells me he is now only a few short of photographing every bus in Lothian.. Hearty congrats Ian that's terrific work.
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Seen up the farm yesterday, Dennis Dart M455 LLJ with AEC Regent GJG 750D & Eastbourne Corporation AEC Regent KHC 345(KHC 368)
I really should remember to change my ISO when the weather brightens up or shooting stationary subjects 1250 a bit much me thinks!
Common Darter Dragonfly seen by pond in Whittington Park N19. Start of August 2014
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Upper Dart valley, autumn flood. Dartmoor National Park.
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A Female Common Darter Dragonfly taken at Jackson's Brickworks, Higher Poynton. Jacksons’ Brickworks in Higher Poynton is a special place, reclaimed by nature after its industrial interlude. It is now so valuable for wildlife that it has been designated a Local Nature Reserve (LNR). The 9½ hectare site is managed as a mosaic of different habitats including Wetland, Grassland, Semi-natural Woodland and scrub.
It is especially important for the great crested newt, a species protected under European law.
Darter dragonfly in the garden. First of the year. Natural light.
See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/29142654228/ for a 3D version
The new downtown transit hub nearing the end of construction. It looks cool; unfortunately it has ruined my favored IAIS night shot angle.
A rear advert on Dart 62 for highlandwear styling at its best and I wouldn't
mind going to the George Hotel for champagne cocktails with these two and
their inviting eyes!
It's absolutely super isn't it and surely one of the most eye catching bus advertisements around. So very French. Tres sexy pour moi...e vous?
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The Dennis Dart in MTR Bus Department are very special. It is because they all have a Northern Counties bodies. In Hong Kong, only a few buses have a Northern Counties bodies.
Poor photography but interesting behaviour ? Male and female darter getting in some late egg-laying - bobbing about the pond as they do - when suddenly a rival male flew into the attack. The female held by male #1 was up-ended and thrown across the water while the 2 males had a real set-to. It's a tough world out there.
The 8501 / 8601 Class were built by Tokyu Car Corporation in Japan in 2000. They are formed into 4 car sets with the following formation:
8601 (DTS) + 8501 (DMS) + 8502 (DMS) + 8602 (DTS).
Four, 4 car sets were initially built with a further three, 4 car sets arriving in 2002. They often worked in multiple with the 8201 / 8401 Class.
DART 8616 is from the second batch of units, which arrived in 2002.
LHB DART unit 8133 leads a 4 car set around Killiney Hill and past White Rock with the 16:10 Bray – Malahide.
Poison dart frog (also known as dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly known as poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to Central and South America. These species are diurnal and often have brightly colored bodies. Although all wild dendrobatids are at least somewhat toxic, levels of toxicity vary considerably from one species to the next and from one population to another. Many species are threatened. These amphibians are often called "dart frogs" due to the Amerindians' indigenous use of their toxic secretions to poison the tips of blowdarts. However, of over 175 species, only four have been documented as being used for this purpose (curare plants are more commonly used), all of which come from the Phyllobates genus, which is characterized by the relatively large size and high levels of toxicity of its members.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Epiprocta
Infraorder: Anisoptera
The yellow-winged darter, Sympetrum flaveolum, is a dragonfly found in Europe and mid and Northern China. Breeding is confined to stagnant water, usually in peat bogs. Although not resident in the United Kingdom it occasionally migrates there in some numbers. Such 'Invasion Years' occurred in 1906, 1926, 1945, 1953, and 1995. On each occasion a small breeding colony appeared, but they have invariably died out after a few years.
An almost unmistakable darter, red-bodied in the male, with both sexes having large amounts of saffron-yellow colouration to the basal area of each wing, which is particularly noticeable on the hind-wings. Other Sympetrum species may have limited yellow-orange colouration near the extreme wing-bases, especially in females, but never so extensively as in this species.
Sites which are likely to attract this species have thick rushy margins. The yellow-winged darter tends to make quite short flights when settled at a site, and frequently perches quite low down on vegetation.