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Rear view of the MCT Dart repaint.
This one used the CMNL Blackburn Transport Dart which needed 3 days in the paint stripper then another day of scraping off the remaining paint with blade and wire wool.
Don't know what they use in their ivory paint - perhaps real ivory??? :-)
This Common Darter did not pay much heed to me or my camera lens, he was too busy devouring the fly he had just caught :) Two more shots in the comments, it only took about 30 seconds for him to eat his prey :)
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Australasian Darter
Anhinga novaehollandiae
Anhingidae
Description: The Darter is a large, slim water bird with a long snake-like neck, sharp pointed bill, and long, rounded tail. Male birds are dark brownish black with glossy black upperwings, streaked and spotted white, silver-grey and brown. The strongly kinked neck has a white or pale brown stripe from the bill to where the neck kinks and the breast is chestnut brown. Females and immatures are grey-brown above, pale grey to white below, with a white neck stripe that is less distinct in young birds. The Darter is often seen swimming with only the snake-like neck visible above the water, or drying its wings while perched on a tree or stump over water. While its gait is clumsy on land, it can soar gracefully to great heights on thermals, gliding from updraft to updraft. It has a cross-shaped silhouette when flying.
Distribution: In Australia, the Darter is found from Adelaide, South Australia, to Tennant Creek, Northern Territory and then to Broome, Western Australia. it is also found in south-western Australia, from Perth to Esperance. Worldwide, it has been thought of as one of two mainAnhinga species (the other, A. anhinga, is found in North America), found in the southern half of Africa, Madagascar, Iraq, Pakistan, India, south-east Asia, Indonesia and New Guinea. However, A. melanogaster is now considered to be further divided into three species, with rufa being found in Africa, melanogaster in south Asia and novaehollandiae in New Guinea and Australia (the Australasian Darter).
Habitat: The Darter is found in wetlands and sheltered coastal waters, mainly in the Tropics and Subtropics. It prefers smooth, open waters, for feeding, with tree trunks, branches, stumps or posts fringing the water, for resting and drying its wings. Most often seen inland, around permanent and temporary water bodies at least half a metre deep, but may be seen in calm seas near shore, fishing. The Darter is not affected by salinity or murky waters, but does require waters with sparse vegetation that allow it to swim and dive easily. It builds its nests in trees standing in water, and will move to deeper waters if the waters begin to dry up.
Feeding: The Darter catches fish with its sharp bill partly open while diving in water deeper than 60 cm. The fish is pierced from underneath, flicked onto the water's surface and then swallowed head first. Smaller items are eaten underwater and large items may be carried to a convenient perch and then swallowed. Insects and other aquatic animals, including tortoises, may also be eaten, as well as some vegetable matter. In hot weather, adult birds may pour water from their bills into the gullets of their young chicks when they are still in the nest.
Breeding: The Darter is usually a solitary bird, forming pairs only while breeding. Breeding is erratic, happening whenever water levels and food supplies are suitable, but most often occurs in spring and summer. Nests are usually solitary, but Darters may nest within loose colonies with other water birds that nest in trees, such as cormorants, spoonbills and ibis. The male decorates a nest-site with green leafy twigs and displays to attract a mate, with elaborate wing-waving and twig-grasping movements. The male carries most of the nest material to the nest-site, which is normally in the fork of a tree standing in water, usually about 3.5 m above the water's surface. Both sexes complete the nest, incubate the eggs and raise the young. Chicks are kept warm by brooding continously (or cooled down by shading with spread wings) for up to a week after hatching and both adults stay in the nest with the chicks overnight. In hot weather, the adults will even shake water over the chicks after a swim. Chicks can swim after about four weeks in the nest and start to fly at about 50 days.
(Source: www.birdlife.org.au)
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DART 6 is used by the Drowning Accident Rescue Team as the logistician's vehicle. It was acquired secondhand from the City of Sacramento, where it was used by the Parks Department.
Note the custom badging at the lower right of the passenger door.
1973 Dodge Dart Swinger
Location: Hegau, Germany
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The darters, anhingas, or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae, which contains 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; 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
Description
The Darter is a large, slim water bird with a long snake-like neck, sharp pointed bill, and long, rounded tail. Male birds are dark brownish black with glossy black upperwings, streaked and spotted white, silver-grey and brown. The strongly kinked neck has a white or pale brown stripe from the bill to where the neck kinks and the breast is chestnut brown. Females and immatures are grey-brown above, pale grey to white below, with a white neck stripe that is less distinct in young birds. The Darter is often seen swimming with only the snake-like neck visible above the water, or drying its wings while perched on a tree or stump over water. While its gait is clumsy on land, it can soar gracefully to great heights on thermals, gliding from updraft to updraft. It has a cross-shaped silhouette when flying.
Male common darter dragonfly sitting on a bonsai acer by the side of my pond. Using my sigma 105 with 33mm of ext tubes
DART 5 is a 1979 Dodge W40 ex-military ambulance. It is used mainly for public relations at community events, although it also serves as a backup tow vehicle for the boat.
Used mostly in the tropics, the Dart Frog Powersuit's (lovingly nicknamed "The Rotten Banana") chainsaw and thrusters make it ideal for moving through dense foliage.
A very modified version of Zeessi's powersuit. Might as well join the bandwagon :)
Finnish dart board, tikkataulu, right where it should be. On an outside wall of an old wooden cottage. Also most likely bought from a gas station alongside few beers.
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Dennis Dart SLF / Alexander B28F new April 2001 as Y118HWB , acquired from Abellio , London in March 2013. Now named "John Cleese". This is the only one of the older single deck buses 300-311 still running with Crosville. It is still going strong in July 2017 after most of the town services were withdrawn.
Were I forced to choose, of all the Dennis Dart variants, I guess these would have to be my personal favourites. The proportion looks right and the engine size (Cummins 5.9 litre 6BTA) is about right for such a bus IMHO. I'm probably in a minority here, but I actually like this style of Arriva livery too!
The bus, T527 AOB (along with a sister vehicle) had stood spare / lain idle at Arriva's Macclesfield premises for nearly twelve months but then, being declared surplus to requirements, were sold off. Before departure they were both daubed with a livery 'spoiling' black band around the waste which didn't half look a mess. After a few hours hard work with a 'special concotion' that wouldn't impress the 'cosh' folks (!), the bus is now back looking tidy, newly re- MoT'd and ready for sale.