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www.british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/red-veined-darter
Description: Length: 38-40mm
Flight period: June to September (occasionally May, October and early November)
The bright red males and clear yellow-brown females are attractive. The eyes are brown above and blue below and the wing bases are yellow. The pterostigma is yellow to orange strongly outlined in black.
Male: becomes a deep red with maturity with red veins on the wings, particularly on the leading edges. The frons and the thorax are red-brown.
Female: ochre yellow abdomen with two black lines along each side. The wing veins are yellow at the costa, leading edge and base.
Immature males: coloured as the females but have only a single line along each side of the abdomen.
Habitat:
Breeds in large shallow water bodies such as rice paddies in Sothern Europe.
Status & Distribution:
Fairly frequent migrant, principally to southwest England though scattered records from elsewhere (has reached Scotland). Breeds nearly annually, but colonies seemingly not stable
This was taken on the south bank of the Dart River on the extensive grassy flats that are located just upstream of the Rock Burn. Lake Sylvan lies in the extensive moraine deposits to the right, and Mt Alfred is the prominent hill on the right. The Rees River enters the from beyond the forested slopes on the left, while the Richardson Mountains form the distant skyline.
Common darter - Sympetrum striolatum - in flight. The season is moving on with the darters starting to replace the chasers and skimmers. Emperors still on the wing are increasingly being replaced by southern, brown and migrant hawkers. We even had parasol mushrooms pushing up this weekend.
Two Cardiff Bus Darts rather photogenically positioned for this photo... Seen outside Central Station.
Common Darter - Garden. Surprised to see this freshly emerged Darter sunning itself on the honeysuckle. As far as I'm aware this is the first newly emerged Dragonfly that we've ever had. This is the nearest I can get with my macro and unfortunately due to it being hidden in a honeysuckle was unable to get the DoF that I really wanted.
Dart's continue to be a familiar theme here in Cornwall with several Independent's now using them for school contracts & private hires.
Here not to be confused with A2B of Newquay is former Stagecoach Hants & Surrey Alexander Dennis Pointer 2 Dart GX06DXB now a2b's F4NRL seen leaving St Austell Bus & Rail Station back in September on Rail Replacement duties at the time I took this.
Introducing my new boy,
He's name as says on the title.
more info of him in his album description ^.~
hope you'll stay tuned about his coming stories with the rest of the group :)
adopted him from april <3
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, is seen, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, at Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. DART is the worldās first full-scale planetary defense test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology. The mission was built and is managed by Johns Hopkins APL for NASAās Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae having a single genus Anhinga. There are four living species, three of which are very common and widespread while the fourth is rarer and classified as near-threatened by the IUCN. The term "snakebird" is usually used without any additions to signify whichever of the completely allopatric species occurs in any one region. It refers to their long thin neck, which has a snake-like appearance when they swim with their bodies submerged, or when mated pairs twist it during their bonding displays. "Darter" is used with a geographical term when referring to particular species. It alludes to their manner of procuring food, as they impale fishes with their thin, pointed beak. The American darter (A. anhinga) is more commonly known as the anhinga. It is sometimes called "water turkey" in the southern United States for little clearly apparent reason; though the anhinga is quite unrelated to the wild turkey, they are both large, blackish birds with long tails that are sometimes hunted for food.
Anhinga is derived from the Tupi ajĆÅa (also transcribed Ć”yinga or ayingĆ”), which in local mythology refers to a malevolent demonic forest spirit; it is often translated as "devil bird". The name changed to anhingĆ” or anhangĆ” as it was transferred to the TupiāPortuguese LĆngua Geral. However, in its first documented use as an English term in 1818, it referred to an Old World darter. Ever since, it has also been used for the modern genus Anhinga as a whole.
Dennis Dart / Duple Dartline G123RGT at PVS Barnsley, May 2009.
New to R&I Tours in 1990 and latterly with Arriva.
Black Darter (Sympetrum danae)
Corlea Trackway, Kenagh, Co. Longford.
I am open to correction on dragonfly ID!
Ipswich Buses Dennis Super Dart East Lancs Spryte X98 LBJ was on the 15a service today.I wonder which Comedian came up with that colour scheme because it is awful.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, is seen during sunrise, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, at Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. DART is the worldās first full-scale planetary defense test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology. The mission was built and is managed by the Johns Hopkins APL for NASAās Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
I'd suggest that Farleigh Coaches MEZ 445 is one of the best kept Dennis Dart SLF Plaxton Pointer 2s still in operational use. It was new to Buzzlines as GX05 AVV and then spent ten years with Kent Coach Tours until their closure in 2024. It is seen in Haywards Heath, 30th March, 2025, on rail replacement to Plumpton.
8301/8101 at the rear of 6-piece LHB departing Clontarf Road DART station working the 09:55hrs service from Bray to Howth, while 8325/8125 arrives working the 10:24hrs service from Malahide to Greystones.
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common darter male dragonfly sitting on my finger. yesterday he wouldn't do this but with lots of training...
Having spent the past few years with an operator in Devon K91BNY has been rescued for preservation and is seen here in the Barry bus museum.
Metrobus route 352: Bromley North Station - Lower Sydenham, Sainsbury's
Bromley South Station (Y)
Go-Ahead London: Metrobus retained route 352 from Orpington (MB) on 19 September 2015. New buses SE261-267 only started entering service a month later from 20 October 2015.
The new buses are another good batch of 8.9m Euro VI E200s from Go-Ahead London. They are more boisterous than SE235-260, introduced earlier for routes 322 and G1, but they are quality buses which continue to prove Go-Ahead have the best short-length Euro VI Enviro200 buses so far.
Ā©London Bus Breh 2015.
I don't know if a lot of fellow enthusiast would class the Dennis Dart as a 'modern classic' but certainly there is no doubting its service to the bus industry and its longevity in terms of service.
What I would class as a classic style is this Mk1 SLF Pointer, it looks the biz in Tally Ho!'s simple but effective livery.
I would have thought this was a very late Mk1 Pointer since R reg was when the Pointer 2 body started to appear.
It is pictured in Yelveton running on a school contract, in recent times this working has been covered by a Van Hool coach, I think they might still own this Dart although I've not seen it for a while.
Finally a Dart that we can all enjoy! I remember reading something about a London Transport proposal for an 8 wheeled double decker citybus...
Whether this Dart would ride any better than the standard is very much open to question!
This is a video of a very wet and boggy walk I did today down into the Dart Valley. I was trying to get some photos to sell on my Getty account, but the weather wasn't great today. It's a nice walk when the weather is better.
The common darter is found in pond weed and is often found on the ground, it also uses perches for landing on. This dragonfly, flies during June to late autumn and it is often the latest flying species of dragonfly.
During the Glasgow bus war, Stagecoach began a service to Milton, and Firstbus responded by the introduction of the short 52 service, while only ran to St Vincent Street, and turned back up Hope Street to begin the return journey at Watt Bros department store. Here we see MD99 passing MD96, with the drivers discussing tactics briefly.