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A darter dragonfly visited the garden yesterday. Gave me an opportunity to try my new 5Dmk2 / MPE-65 combo. Natural light /fill flash
Darter "Anhinga melanogaster."
Also known as.....Diver, Needle-beak Shag or Snake bird.
This male was trying to dry his feathers, so I didn't get too close to disturb him.
Taken a short distance from the previous photo during the same brief moments of sunshine.
Red and blue line DART light rail trains meet at Reunion in downtown Dallas. Photo September 10, 2016.
Slanghalsvoel
(Anhinga rufa)
The African darter (Anhinga rufa), sometimes called the snakebird, is a water bird of sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq.
The African darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American (Anhinga anhinga), Oriental (Anhinga melanogaster), and Australasian (Anhinga novaehollandiae) darters.
The male is mainly glossy black with white streaking, but females and immature birds are browner. The African darter differs in appearance from the American darter most recognisably by its thin white lateral neck stripe against a rufous background colour. The pointed bill should prevent confusion with cormorants.
It is an 80 cm long cormorant-like fish-eating species with a very long neck, like other anhingas.
The African darter is found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of water occur; overall the species remains widespread and common.
One subspecies, the Levant darter (Anhinga rufa chantrei), occurred at Lake Amik (Amik Gölü) in south-central Turkey, in Hula valley lake and marshes in northern Israel and in the Mesopotamian Marshes of the lower Euphrat and Tigris rivers in southern Iraq. The Turkish population disappeared during the 1930s and the Israeli population during Hula drainage in the 1950s. It was feared that it also had disappeared from Iraq, but a small and threatened population remains at least in the Hawizeh Marshes (part of the Mesopotamian Marshes), which are also home to numerous other waters birds such as little grebe, pygmy cormorant, marbled teal and sacred ibis.
This species builds a stick nest in a tree and lays 3–6 eggs. It often nests with herons, egrets and cormorants.
It often swims with only the neck above water, hence the common name snakebird. This, too, is a habit shared with the other anhingas.
Unlike many other waterbirds the feathers of the African darter do not contain any oil and are therefore not waterproof. Because of this, the bird is less positively buoyant and its diving capabilities are enhanced. After diving for fish, the feathers can become waterlogged. In order to be able to fly and maintain heat insulation, it needs to dry its feathers. Thus the African darter is often seen sitting along the waterside spreading its wings and drying its feathers in the wind and the sun along with cormorants which may share its habitat.
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The all-new Dodge Dart rolls off the assembly line at Chrysler Group’s Belvidere (Ill.) Assembly Plant. The Company invested $700 million in a state-of-the-art body shop and added nearly 500 jobs for production of the Dart. In addition, the plant will add a third crew of about 1,300 jobs by the third quarter of 2012.
Arriva Buses Wales Dennis Dart MPD / Plaxton Pointer II 813 (T65 JBA) rests in Wrexham Depot, with Pulsar 2912 (CX58 EXC) in the background having just arrived from the end of its duties on route 1.
Common darter dragonfly on the greenhouse door. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene.
A surprise early morning find
Christmas Eve 2009 and here's one of 50 Dennis Darts brought into service from 2002. Number 57 creeps through the slippery cobbled streets of the New Town at Eyre Place. Darts 54 to 63 (along with an earlier Dart number 188) can easily be found on service 36. Three more Darts, numbers 51, 52 and 53 are no longer in public service and are used as training vehicles in yellow livery (TB51 - 53).
Very often residents of the Georgian New Town are treated to Volvo buses as well, but the area between Broughton and the Dean Bridge often proves to be a testing experience for even the most experienced driver, such are the narrow streets often heavily congested with traffic and pedestrians. In conditions like these it's a even more tricky.
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These two dart heads made from chert rock are believed to be over 5000 years old (circa 3000 BC).
The Chumash Indian Museum is just north of Los Angeles.
Thousand Oaks; May 2021
On September 1st 2014, Sussex Bus launched a network of bus services in Crawley branded as Crawley Reds using four Dennis Dart SLF Plaxton Pointer buses. Ex Pennine KN52 NFM is seen in service CR3 on the 29th of that month.
2011 Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 Dart integral body/chassis with a Cummins ISBe 4.5 litre inline 4 diesel engine, Reg.YX61BXJ of ASD Coaches on a NHS Shuttle Bus service to Chatham Hospital at Chatham Quays, 28 October 2022.
Originally introduced in 2003 by Transbus (formed in 2000 by the merger of Alexander, Dennis and Plaxton) as a replacement for the Plaxton Pointer 2 body, the Alexander ALX200 body, and the Dennis Dart SLF chassis, the Transbus Enviro 200 Dart was effectively a semi-integral bus employing an updated version of the ALX200 body and Dart SLF chassis combination. However, available options were the Enviro 200 body with the MAN 14.240 chassis; or the Enviro 200 chassis with the Optare Esteem or MCV Evolution bodies. Production stopped in 2018.
Hunts Dart SB1 FH02BUS in Louth bus station 13:44 23/04/14 actually working service 8 despite the blind. This bus was new to London United as LG02FGP
Drivers of anything will know just what it feels like to negotiate this
tricky little twist at the top of St. Bernard's Crescent which can be a
total hazardous experience especially on wet or oily cobbles. There's a
further obstacle, just behind the camera here, as an awkward island makes it
hard to avoid slipping. This little one-way disaster was created some years
ago to either slow the traffic down or make drivers go elsewhere, except
that there's nowhere else to go to and from Stockbridge! It's a hopeless
arrangement and when crossing on foot you have to take third place to
traffic going up and down. The sooner that's got rid of and the road opened
up again the better.
However, it makes getting a nice shot of a Dennis Dart a little easier owing
to the speed control and here's 63 carefully making it's way up towards the
Dean Bridge and further onto the West End and Princes Street.
St. Bernard's Crescent and its associated terraces follow James Milne's
revised scheme of 1824, by which time the enthusiasm for New Town house
building had reached its height. Reference is often made to the crescent's
grandest Grecian Doric pillars that are to be found on the left side
(looking at this picture) and this is the most opulent part of the
crescent. Architectural detail is bold and the long horizontal windows,
reaching up from the ground floor, demonstrate beauty virtually unknown elsewhere
in Edinburgh. A central garden, with the main road running round the right-hand side of the crescent here, separates the secluded side of this Classical
masterpiece.
Indeed, Dr. Anderson of Edinburgh University has described St. Bernard's
Crescent as the finest street in the Capital. An address to aspire to
perhaps.
And once again passengers on bus service 36 can enjoy a route that seems
like it's been planned especially for visiting tourists!
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Hounslow bus station consists of a couple of bus stops at the edge of the forecourt of Hounslow garage.
It only serves a couple of routes, with others stopping on the road outside. Some routes do lay over on the garage forecourt though - like the 116 and H32 seen here.
On the left, the 116 is Dart DPS717 (SN55 HKY).
The three OmniCitys are, from left to right, SP187 (YT10 XCL), SP35 (YN08 MRV) and SP51 (YT09 BNJ). The latter is on the 120.
Hounslow bus garage, Hounslow, Greater London.
Emirates liveried '8520' class DART EMU set as the lead car on the 12.45 Howth - Bray service, January 12th 2012. Harmonstown station.
On the 23rd April 2022 the 'Maud' arrives at Dartmouth from the Isles of Scilly whilst the River Dart Lower Ferry comes off the berth to enter service for the day.
Anhinga novaehollandiae
A bit of drama after shooting this good old darter "aka snake head". I went further back to prepare for a flight shot and on the same rocks I hopped 5 minutes ago
I see two Eastern Brown Snakes (highly venomous and responsible for more deaths than all snakes put together in Australia) infront of me and one hissed me so I had to change direction but there another 2 metre to my to my left is another third little Eastern brown. So I walk back the way towards the darter and get to a better position to get a shot of the 3rd and previous one that hissed me but the third little one makes his escape but the one that hissed me holds his ground and lets me take a few shots then takes up a nice raised position watching my every move. See next set for more Eastern Brown Sanke photo's coming.
The Drowning Accident Rescue Team (DART) is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization, the primary mission of which is to save lives and recover property from the various lakes and waterways in and around Sacramento County (California). Established in 1980, they accomplish this mission through numerous rescue, recovery and prevention activities.
In 2004, as a result of directives from the US Dept. of Homeland Security requiring all search and rescue teams to be overseen by the local sheriff's departments, DART entered into an agreement with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Dept. as a member of its Special Operations Division. However, they receive no funding from the Sheriff and are completely reliant on donations, grants and fundraising events.
For more information on DART: dartsac.org/
Many thanks to Jason at DART for the invitation to come out and photograph their equipment again.