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Photographed passing through Tarvin is this GHA Coaches owned Dennis Dart SLF 8.8M with Caetano Nimbus bodywork. It is registered FJ06 URR and is pictured working the 84 service to Crewe bus station. It was new to Red Rose of Weston Turville back in 2006.
Common Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum striolatum). The most common UK dragonfly and there were many of them at Potteric Carr Nature Reserve near Doncaster. (Yorkshire Wildlife Trust)
Ramsey Road, Whittlesey, just by the railway crossing os a great spot for Common Darter dragonflies - there were certainly more than 30 individuals flying in that one small area of the Cambridgeshire Fens.
Hello Stranger ! Dennis Dart WA03WWZ, Stagecoach Fleet 34399, has been working the 77 service in Newton Abbot today. Seen in Queensway with the 1350 service from town. 7th March 2015
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Dennis Dart.
Privately owned, ex Travel Wright seen filling up at a local garage, I tried to get a shot when she came out but traffic from the opposite direction thwarted me.
King Street, Weymouth.
Yellow-banded Poison Dart frog
Pretty but deadly. It's said that one poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill ten men. It's on it's skin - so don't touch it.
For more information see Wikipedia:
Number 24 is the first completed, and first numerically, of the five bought a while back to bolster the fleet. The Plaxton Pointer SLFs have had a thorough refurbishment to make them less like 'rattling bangers'. (the passengers certainly know how to describe the buses using the company's initials!)
The extra grilles at the back are for the new engines fitted - the same type found in the latest 6cyl Enviro 200 models. The six cylinder option being chosen for use on the open roads out on the 201 and for racing up and down the A52 on P&R services.
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.
Pictured in Whitehaven is this Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire Alexander Dennis Dart SLF 10.7M with Alexander Dennis Pointer 2 bodywork. It is registered PX56 CWO with the fleet number of 35248 and is captured working the 32 service to Egremont.
Dart 23 hasn't benefitted from the new E200 engines being fitted to the older SLFs, and instead is finished to the same style as sister bus 15. Except for having black doors.
Dart 23 hasn't benefitted from the new E200 engines being fitted to the older SLFs, and instead is finished to the same style as sister bus 15. Except for having black doors.
Thank you very much for the visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
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 3 is one of two former Sacramento Metro Fire medic units operated by the Drowning Accident Rescue Team (DART). Both units are equipped so that divers can suit-up en route to an incident.
Tonight's Net Flicks post is a 'very' quick grab in failing light through the fence of aircraft preserved inside the Florida Air National Guard enclave at Jacksonville International Airport
Closest is Convair F-106A Delta Dart 57-0230 c/n 8-24-19 with behind her, is plinth mounted Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star
53-5325 c/n 580-8664
To the right were Convair F-102A Delta Dagger 57-0817 marked as 56-1357 along with a McDonnell-Douglas F-15A Eagle 76-0080
Outside their gate is an F-16A Fighting Falcon, 79-0296/FL01
The fact that earlier I'd met a fellow enthusiast at the NAS Jax Airshow who'd been at this spot the day before telling me a story that he'd subsequently been stopped and instructed to delete the images he'd taken through the fence of them.....and that the light had not been fading - I might have tried my luck.....
I did grab the Dagger and the Eagle too but the shot was blurred, however whilst driving away, the F-16 was more accessible so I'll post a shot of that another day
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Recently produced mural on the wall of the South West Water pumping house in Totnes, beside the River Dart.