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this was a complete accident! i was just minding my own business, blocking the exhibit in the aquarium, and i happened to get this shot with this amazing lighting! ive been trying to duplicate it ever since!
They usually breed in colonies, occasionally mixed with cormorants or herons. The darters pair bond monogamously at least for a breeding season. There are many different types of displays used for mating. Males display to attract females by raising (but not stretching) their wings to wave them in an alternating fashion, bowing and snapping the bill, or giving twigs to potential mates. To strengthen the pair bond, partners rub their bills or wave, point upwards or bow their necks in unison. When one partner comes to relieve the other at the nest, males and females use the same display the male employs during courtship; during changeovers, the birds may also "yawn" at each other.
Breeding is seasonal (peaking in March/April) at the northern end of their range; elsewhere they can be found breeding all year round. The nests are made of twigs and lined with leaves; they are built in trees or reeds, usually near water. Typically, the male gathers nesting material and brings it to the female, which does most of the actual construction work. Nest construction takes only a few days (about three at most), and the pairs copulate at the nest site. The clutch size is two to six eggs (usually about four) which have a pale green color. The eggs are laid within 24–48 hours and incubated for 25 to 30 days, starting after the first has been laid; they hatch asynchronously. To provide warmth to the eggs, the parents will cover them with their large webbed feet, because like their relatives they lack a brood patch. The last young to hatch will usually starve in years with little food available. Bi-parental care is given and the young are considered altricial. They are fed by regurgitation of partly digested food when young, switching to entire food items as they grow older. After fledging, the young are fed for about two more weeks while they learn to hunt for themselves.
These birds reach sexual maturity by about two years, and generally live to around nine years. The maximum possible lifespan of darters seems to be about sixteen years.
Darter eggs are edible and considered delicious by some; they are locally collected by humans as food. The adults are also eaten occasionally, as they are rather meaty birds (comparable to a domestic duck); like other fish-eating birds such as cormorants or seaducks they do not taste particularly good though. Darter eggs and nestlings are also collected in a few places to raise the young. Sometimes this is done for food, but some nomads in Assam and Bengal train tame darters to be employed as in cormorant fishing. With an increasing number of nomads settling down in recent decades, this cultural heritage is in danger of being lost. On the other hand, as evidenced by the etymology of "anhinga" detailed above, the Tupi seem to have considered the anhinga a kind of bird of ill omen.
It is interesting how one bird keeps watch over the entire nesting area so the others can take care of their young. Wish humans thought the same way.
Centrebus L712 JUD had been new to Thames Transit in Oxford as seen a dual doored Dart, which in itself was an unusual build for outside London. Centrebus has taken a large slice of the Luton/Dunstable routes over the past few years and favoured the Dart for its big bus operation L712 JUD passed for scrap in Jan 11
We were standing quite high on the vertical cliffs above this Darter, astonished by the flexibility of its neck which darted in all directions... I particularly liked this position when the neck paralleled the dead tree branch it was perched on, the pattern on its back and the texture of the water below... It was late in the day so the light wasn't ideal but some noise reduction helped with the final image...
DART had an event this morning to educate folks on how to use their new bike racks. They should do this every weekend. I can't tell you how many times I see a DART bus going down the street with an empty bike rack.
I hope to use this in the future as part of my commute to work.
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Just one more of the Black Darter (Sympetrum danae)
A small heathland and moorland species, and the only UK black dragonfly. The males become extensively black with maturity with a black frons and thorax. Some yellow markings remain along the sides of the abdomen and thorax.
Females and immature males have a yellow abdomen and brown thorax marked with a black triangle on top. The side of the thorax and the lower part of the abdomen is strongly marked in black.
Yesterday I posted few more shots, including a female and an immature male.
Thank you for visiting my photostream and I appreciate your comments. I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and I'll catch up with you all today :)
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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The terminus at the Jewel is in the middle of a car park with a
bus lane running down the middle. It's located on the east side of the city
centre on the edge of the by-pass at Kinnaird and not too far from
Portobello. There is a large ASDA supermarket just to the rear of the bus
here and as we can see the car park itself seems to attract cars of a
certain type!
Let's hear again from Chris Cuthill on the different types of Dart.
"The Dart is a Dennis Chassis, which was owned by Mayflower Group who also
bought Plaxton and Alexander. The company then became TransBus. They went
into administration and Plaxton once again became a separate company.
Alexander Dennis was formed and took over the Bus production of Transbus
with Plaxton focussing on Coaches.
ADL (Alexander Dennis Limited) kept the Pointer for some years then
developed the Enviro200 body built on an updated Dart chassis. In the
beginning known as the "Dart4" but due to the popularity of the Dart name
the decision was made to name the chassis as the Enviro200Dart. Available in
similar lengths to the original Dart the 8.9m is proving to be popular along
with the standard length 10.7m variant. The 11.3m is now bodied on the
bigger Enviro300 body!".
And to just to add that all of Lothian's Darts are Super Pointer Darts at 11.3m.
Thanks to Chris for that and now I shall go and make myself a
cup of tea!
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Diamond Bus Dennis Dart Driver Training vehicle J603XHL at their Tividale base.
New to London Buses in 1991 as DRL3.
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.
broad scarlet, common scarlet-darter, scarlet darter and scarlet dragonfly, Crocothermis erythraea, Vuurlibel