This section is about 1-2 kms upstream from the start of the Dart/Rees walking track.

The colour of the Dart River was quite muddy due to around 300mm of rain falling a couple of days previously. Normally the colour of the Dart River is a beautiful bluey green.

Darter's chilling out at the bank .. It is also called the snake bird I believe

Jill's 18 year old horse

Dart estuary viewed from high up in Kingswear.

galmpton view across the Dart

Sport im Park Woche 3

Cradley, Malvern, Worcs. SO729470

Darter dragonfly

Vagrant Darter

This is either a female or juvenile Darter (Anhinga melanogaster), also known as "snake birds" with their serpentine neck. They use their pointed bill to spear fish along rivers and around wetlands.

Darter dragonfly in the garden

Darter dragonfly on finger

Darter dragonfly

Not long after having my best view of a local Hare yet as it ran from the bushes in front of me to an area of trees a few hundred away, I came across a couple of Ruddy Darters. They were the first ones I'd seen this year and although they were both quite wary, I still managed to get close-ups of this one as it sat on a blade of long grass just inches away from my camera lense.

Great to see them again and I'm sure that there will be many more emerging in the next few weeks :-)

OK this a Darter, I'm confident of that. However having posted pictures of what I thought were Common Darters and Ruddy Darters I am now not sure. All I can say about this one is that its probably a female. If anyone can confirm exactly which Darter this is I would be obliged. Similarly the photo I posted a couple of days ago, that I labeled "Ruddy Darter" which Greeny tells me is a "Common". As the saying goes "I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure" :)

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Dennis Dart Plaxton body B40F

New Aug 1996, South London. LDR24.

At Ketley Bank, 29 Aug 2009.

Darter dragonfly on a wall. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Dart grille

Common darter dragonfly- natural light only. compare to www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/882333583/

Argh ,, ampir 100 XD

This Common Darter was resting still on the top of a weed just a couple of metres from me so that I could take some shots of it. Without any expectation to see a dragonfly when I was chasing the butterflies in a field far away from water yesterday.

A tripod-mounted Olympus C-3030Z was used to take this shot.

The rounded granite river boulders are a feature of this wonderful National Park.

Dennis Dart / Carlyle at was what then known as the Hopper Bus Station June 1997. This was during a period of intense competition between Yeomans and Midland Red West on the Hereford city minibus network.

Male common darter dragonfly on a cane. Natural light

Male common darter dragonfly on a fence. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Dodge Dart at Alcester & Avon Classic Motoring Club meet at Binton Social Club in April. Report from meet in latest issue of Classic and Competition car magazine, now available online. Free to read at www.classcompcar.com

Nov 2018 - Dart

2013 Dodge Dart

A long river. Stretches around 46 miles from head to mouth. It has two heads West and East Dart that merge at Dartmeet and then flows through the South Hams via Totnes to Dartmouth.

Dart frogs / orchids paludarium

Two common darters continue the species.