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I went on a Flickr birdwatching shoot yesterday with ##Happysnapper##, Allanhowell1 and Brie321 to Sydney Bi-Centennial Park at Homebush Bay. It was lovely to meet everyone and I had a wonderful time taking photos of all the bird life.
Darters are a water bird that is closely related to Cormorants. Their feathers are not waterproof and since they are underwater hunters you will usually see them sitting out of the water on a log or rock with their wings spread right out drying themselves. Their feathers are permeable to water to allow for decreased buoyancy so they can sink to catch their prey. They have an oil gland at the base of their tail which they use while preening and squeezing the water from their feathers. With its body submerged and only its head and neck above the surface, the Darter resembles a snake rising from the water; hence one of its popular names the Snake-bird. They have very long and sharp beaks, which they use with their long neck to spear their prey. Best viewed large.
#435 on Explore on 13th March, 2008.
Passing Bedrove shops is Arriva The Shires (KE53NFG 3829) working Service Pink Route 8 to Aylesbury bus station & is seen proudly wearing the new Arriva corporate livery being the first dart to recieve this new colour. New to the Shires fleet in 2003.
In the heart of the Meadows Dennis Dart SLF, Plaxton Pointer SPD, number 63 (SK52 OJG) is seen working Service 24 in 2013, between Granton in the north of Edinburgh to the Royal Infirmary.
I went to a small wetlands area yesterday and saw quite a few of these.
I struggle to identify them as even Common Darters seem to come in a variety of colours.
Any idea what this one is ?
Looking north from the summit of Mt Alfred up the dart valley. Mt Alfred sits at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu
Just an assortment of darter species that I've photographed, all from Indiana except E. exile which was in Michigan.
Darters are a water bird that is closely related to Cormorants. Their feathers are not waterproof and since they are underwater hunters you will usually see them sitting out of the water on a log or rock with their wings spread right out drying themselves. Their feathers are permeable to water to allow for decreased buoyancy so they can sink to catch their prey. They have an oil gland at the base of their tail which they use while preening and squeezing the water from their feathers.
Australian Darter (I think) drying its feathers while hiding in the reeds at Colleges Crossing, Brisbane River near Ipswich.
Apologies once again to my flickr friends for my absence in recent and coming days. I will try to keep up but not the best right now.
Take care all and keep flickring.
Here's the gen -
Little scene from the streets of London. Kept it because of the elegance of the lady and the harmonic colors. I like color street photography!
Still quite a few Common Darters around the local area, be interesting to see if they last into November
While I was waiting for some Kayakers to do their stuff - I noticed this and the camera club does have a reflections comp coming shortly, though I probably have better than this.
Dart SLFs have been around longer than you think. One leaves Aberllefenni, deep in rural mid-Wales in April 2000. Relics of the local slate quarrying industry are visible. Arriva certainly doesn't run here now!
Contax G1 - 45mm lens. Slide film.
Sympetrum striolatum ♂
We put the wooden sunbed away for the winter last night so he will have to find another perch.
The now timeless look of the Pointer 2 shines through even more in the current age of standardisation, Stagecoach still have a number running in Plymouth and Citybus despite having a last Dart day Saturday just gone have been out all the week, saw 3 in the space of 5 minutes today!
Anyway 34610 looking great in the new livery with decent blind passes through the Ham council estate built just post war the first houses going up in 1946.
As the Dart withdrawals continue I thought a look back to when only 6 months into service, fleet no. 71 wearing the attractive 'Super Park & Rider' livery well before the days of First taking it over and running it commercially.
The fabulous throaty exhaust note of these Darts will be missed around the city.
This is just off the exit of Coypool in Plympton to the right you can just see a shunter with wagons.
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