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I am still trying to get the many small and orangish and brown Skippers straight. The diagonal mark evident on the right wing of this specimen gives it the name "Long Dash".
Thanks again to John Acorn from the University of Alberta.
Fort Saskatchewan Prairie, Alberta.
Blue Dasher on buttonbush seed head at Reeds Lake - East Grand Rapids
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Moments after Class J 611 passed this train nice bonus showed up. NS train P88 is on Main 1 of Norfolk Southern's Danville District, the former Southern Railway mainline. They are crossing the Yadkin River from Rowan County into Davidson County at about MP 327.9 and will head into Linwood yard just ahead after their quick run up from Charlotte. A pair of nice standard cab GE C40-9s lead the train, 8786 and 8833 blt. Jan. and Feb. 1995 respectively. Now this model has been wiped from the roster and now standard cab GEs remain. Both of these have since been rebuilt at into AC44C6Ms, the former at Roanoke Shops in Jan. 2018 and the latter by GE at Erie in Aug. 2016 and they are now numbers 4124 and 4008 respectively.
Linwood, North Carolina
Saturday May 30, 2015
C-GUJV, a De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402 Dash 8-400, launching off runway 33 at Downsview Airport in Toronto, Ontario. "Dande" was departing as DHC4632 (De Havilland Canada) on a 2.5 hour test flight.
Serial number 4632 was due to become D2-TFF with TAAG - Linhas Aereas de Angola, E.P. at Luanda, Angola. It would become TAAG's sixth Dash 8-400.
This airframe was the second last Dash 8 to be built before production was paused. De Havilland would eventually vacate this site, where it had been operating for 93 years. No date has been set for a resumption of Dash 8 manufacturing.
Many CN Dash-8s have already gone to the scrapper so news that a pair were leading #148 got me on the highway towards Hamilton to intercept them at Hamilton West coming off the hill into Bayview. Bonus for the 15th anniversary leader.
Earlier in the morning I shot westbound counterpart #149 with a pair of CN's newest GEVOs in the lead, this is a bit of a change.
This female Blue dasher didn’t let me get as close to her as others have, but I’m still pleased with this shot from back in August.
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What's an ode season without Blue Dashers?? Dragonhunters are now out at the wetlands - more soon. N Georgia
Just a simple portrait of CSXT / Pan Am train POED (Rigby to East Deerfield manifest) tied down on Main 1 taken looking east from the Farley Road crossing at MP 373.6 on District 3 of the Freight Mainline, the former Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division.
This was my first time seeing for myself the recently repainted CSXT 9280, a GE C40-8 originally blt. Aug. 1990 as CSXT 762. It was sold to Pan Am in 2017 in a GE brokered deal and became MEC 7627 but remained in tattered patched YN2 paint until being reacquired by its former owner. This is the first and only Pan Am unit to be repainted so far, and the only one of the model once purged from the road's roster that wears the current CSXT image.
Wendell, Massachusetts
Thursday October 20, 2022
Poznan, Poland
Ulica Dąbrowskiego
Jezyce
Autumn/Foggy Dawn
Classic example #3,461 of why I love living here...
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The Soo Line had purchased the Milwaukee Road a little over three months prior to this shot.
WB Soo Line stack train# 800, is leaving Bensenville, IL., with a 4 pack of Milwaukee Road SD40-2's for power. This was a short lived stack train that went to the SP in Kansas City.
Shot on 3-7-1986
Must be a late bloomer. This Blue Dasher dragonfly has no tears in his wings, and his colors are vibrant. With such colors so very late in the season, my only guess is that he didn't emerge until early September.
An Ichneumon Wasp waking up to face the morning.
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A blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) enjoys a leafy respite.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
14 June 2024.
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The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is common and widely distributed in the United States.
Mature males develop a bluish-white pruinescence on the back of the abdomen and, in western individuals, on the thorax. They display this pruinescence to other males as a threat while defending territories at the edge of the water.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", the wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison.
Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens. San Marino. California.
This beautiful dragonfly appears to be an immature Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis). This individual was living in early May at Jones Lake State Park in North Carolina and was a fantastic model for the camera. During the photo session, we witnessed the animal hunting and eating a number of flying insects. This animal seems to prefer to perch on this stick as it waited to identify prey insects passing by.
Here are a few references:
www.migratorydragonflypartnership.org/index/identificatio...
Female Blue Dasher Dragonfly. There are approximately 5,000 different species of dragonflies in the world today, split almost evenly between true dragonflies and damselflies. Most species live in tropical areas, however they can be found in every continent except Antarctica.
The United States hosts approximately 450 different Odonata species.
Amtrak 160 leads the Beech Grove segment of Amtrak’s Cardinal at Lafayette Junction, wearing the heritage “Dash 8 Phase III” scheme in the “Pepsi Can” livery that many Dash 8s on the Amtrak roster wore upon delivery. With a lot of actual Dash 8s being on this train in the area over the last year, this is the closest we will get to getting this scheme back, not on a real dash 8 unfortunately (4/2/25).
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is common and widely distributed in the United States.
Mature males develop a bluish-white pruinescence on the back of the abdomen and, in western individuals, on the thorax. They display this pruinescence to other males as a threat while defending territories at the edge of the water.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", the wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison.
Los Angeles. California.
I’ll never learn, half way back to my daughters and the light I had been waiting for arrives! The evening brought heavy showers interrupted with bright intervals as it edged onward. The little voice in my head said “off your arse Malcolm you should be out in this”. I had the very composition in my mind a small clump of sycamore trees sat at the far end of a golden wheat field, the right light it could be a keeper. I set off with that in mind on a slow casual walk to arrive at my destination to catch the last sunlight before the it was taken by a bank of heavy clouds. Still I was here so I took my photo and walked around the edge of the field to see if there was any other composition of merit. When I got to the far end of the field I waited hoping the sun would play ball before it was swallowed by the horizon. The longer I waited the more I convinced myself it wasn’t going to happen. A dedicated landscape photographer knows how to wait, but not I. Should I even be a landscape photographer, If I’m not moving I’m not doing. It was getting late so I started back, and of course it happened, so my lazy evening stroll became a mad dash, again. I was lucky, I got the photo I was after and a happier photographer started back to again, although now in desperate need of a shower before I hit the sack that night.
Norfolk Southern train 34A rolls through CP Harris with an old D8-40C leading. The former Conrail Dash 8 is running the edge of Harrisburg's old 8th Ward, a former tightly-packed Harrisburg neighborhood full of the cities' poorest residents. It was leveled in 1917 according to www.old8thward.com. Today it is dominated by parking garages, office buildings and apartment buildings; the only thing that appears to still be in the same place is the railroad.
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is an insect of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax.
BNSF received a group of C44-9Ws without thir H2 yellow striping lettering back in the late-90s. Traffic was heavy, motive power was tight and they needed the horsepower in a hurry.
A soon to be yellowed Dash 9 works out of the Westmister tunnel with HPASGAL back on November 1, 1998. Consist on this Pasco to Galesburg was BNSF 4814, 4702, NREX 9323, and BN 8162. Was quite the variety along the Class Is in the late-90s.
Hard to resist a standard cab dash-8 in great light. After shooting M331 a short time earlier with 2452, the sun finally came out for E273's appearance working up the grade through Dundas. With fall colours surrounding the area the peak is packed and more people seen at left are making their way up.