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Blue Dasher at Springton Manor
This is among the first test images with my new camera and lens
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Conrail C32-8 6616 had train SPL-201, an export tractor train bound for Europe via the Port of Baltimore, tied down at Cove on a spring afternoon in 1994 in the shadow of the Pennsylvania Railroad-era signal bridge.
Back in the day before paranoia and knee-jerk reactions, it was possible to take a photo that nowadays would be unheard of. The police would have been all over me for being in the gauge taking photos in the post-9/11 world.
Perhaps I should have not been there, but it is what it is. I certainly have no reason to take photos here anymore since Conrail is long gone as is the variety.
The 6616 was a member of a ten-unit test fleet from GE that helped pave the way for GE to dominate the market.
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas. The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
For the past two seasons, I have been saying that the Blue Dasher is the most numerous of odonates, but something happened in early July this year. This is one of the last I've seen. In fact, the Blue Dasher and Flame Skimmers both seem to have "disappeared" from all our favorite ponds at about the same time. It's been a very unusual and somewhat disconcerting summer. (Two Great Egrets, one Green Heron, one Red-shouldered Hawk, no Barn Swallows... Two heat waves with high humidity, two lightning and thunder storms, followed by twenty degree drops in temperature. My notes since 2002 show August and September to be the hottest and driest months. Today's high is supposed to be 84, and I'm headed to the swamp at 10:30, late in the day for September 1. The last three years have been inactive for me due to health - and then, of course, Covid - but I've noticed that migrations and nesting have dropped off tremendously in large parts of the west. And that pretty much sums up the summer of 2020.)
Female Blue Dasher
So far there seems to have been surprisingly few dragonflies around the local ponds
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my Austrian Dash 8 Q400 Reg. OE-LGI as flight No OS 906 to Vienna International Airport (VIE/LOWW) departure Innsbruck Airport (LOWI/INN)
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Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)
Charleston, South Carolina
September 10, 2016
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Dash collected this log with a large leg of meat attached and dragged it to this glade then proceeded to eat it whilst watching for any possible interference
A dash 9 and an ACe sit at Algonquin on the Princeton Deepwater in Clark's Gap, Wv as the sun goes in and out of the clouds on a cool April afternoon. This power set will eventually pick up a string of empty hopper that were stored here last April and pull them out to take to scrap. This might very well be the last train ever on the line. Word is the track here will be pulled up eventually as this line has been unused since 2015. Quite a few of us were set to chase this train back to Mullens, but it didn't leave out until after 9pm.
A pair of MRL SD40-2XRs work the Helena yard job on a crummy Thursday morning alongside a tied down Jimbo.
I see a Blue Dasher and I think " I Need Another Blue Dasher Photo As Much As Another Hole In The Head" Just Call Me Cheese Head !
CN 439 does a Daylight run on a nice April day back in 2021 with a sweet dash 8 duo, including a COWL on the trail
Before the next two days of cooling, we have today when it's supposed to be in the 90s. I'm trying to get over to the swamp, but I'm also thinking of going to Bullfrog Pond on the mountain, a hike of five hilly miles which I haven't done in five years. In case I don't return (;-) I'd like to leave you with one of my better Blue Dasher finds from yesterday.
I watched him as the Blue Dasher (a Chaser to some of you) was just finishing a survey of his territory, on this flight only 25 yards around the lagoon. Finding nothing, he returned to the one perch I was hoping for. The background is the pond. Yes, it's a greenish brown.
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas. It's so common that the ratio at our little pond is at least 50:1 over all other odonata. Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", their wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison. This makes it very difficult since I don't carry a ruler, dragonflies are territorial, and you won't see male and female side by side ... not even while mating.
It is not just this dragonfly, but all odonates that are carnivorous, and are capable of eating hundreds of insects every day, including mosquito and mayfly larvae. The adult dragonfly will eat nearly any flying insect, such as a moth or fly. Nymphs have a diet that includes other aquatic larvae, small fish, and tadpoles.These dragonflies are known to be voracious predators, consuming up to 10% of their body weight each day in food.
If we're not going to save society, at least save the damsels and dragons to hold down the mosquito population.
Blue dasher dragonfly,July 26, 2021.
Blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis), a.k.a. the Swift Long-winged skimmer (they aren’t especially long-winged, though that’s what longipennis means) and the Blue pirate.
Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
On my exploration yesterday I went further along the hills of northeast Tacoma than I've so far gone, and came upon Dash Point and this beach and dock and pier which is closed down with danger signs all over the place!. The sky was overcast and somewhat ominoous and there was not very much color anywhere so I thought it would look better in black and white.
NiSi 3-stop ND filter (but handheld)
Dragons and damsels exhibit behavior. Surprise! Dragonflies especially have favorite perches in their territories. If you'll note this twig that the Blue Dasher is on and the twig from yesterday's Firecracker, you'd be right in assuming that they're the same twig. I *know* where that twig is, and I stake it out. And that's the first trick of photographing dragons and damsels.
Another trick. After perching, you want to ID them. Well, as much as eyes and abdomen, look at the position of the wings. Dashers will land with wings forward most of the time. Skimmers with the wings out. I'll save the rest for next year...
These units ran on Florida trains nearly every day since they started running for CSX, mostly on trains that are predominantly pulled by a pair of Lovelies: Dash 8s. Their service on trains like Q453, Q441 (seen here), and more earned them thhumorous nickname "Dash 8s" under some Florida Railfans.
I haven't been on Flickr for several years...I moved several times, started pharmacy school, sent my two kids off to college clear across the county, and have been super busy. However, this summer, I was free of both school and work and actually picked up my camera again. It was therapeutic! So even though school started back up again for me, I'm hoping to post pictures a few times a week. My husband and I joined the West Chester Photo Club this week and I'm really hoping I can continue using my cameras at least on weekends here and there. This is a Blue Dasher dragonfly that I found at Gilmore Ponds Park in Hamilton, Ohio.
On a warm summer morning, engineer Kevin Tweed brings train L333 east on the former C&O mainline at Meredith, back to Parsons Yard in Columbus. In 2023, CSX released many units that were previously stored back into service. The C40-8W was one of them, a personal favorite of mine. 7903 shown here is now back in storage after CSX's SD70AC rebuild program eliminated the need for extra power. The L333 job is now abolished, its traffic now handled by other road trains on the Columbus Subdivision.
I am trying to make some images where its not all about the subjects, keeping in mind for large prints. Hope you like them as much as I did making them!!
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A dragonfly (which I believe to be a blue dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis) is perching on a shrub branch near a small pond in Cary, NC, USA.
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G train making its way through BX in Petersburg, Virginia with a low ditch lights AC44CW leading. People believe that 210 is the only one with this feature however there is a handful of AC44CW with low ditch lights.