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Caught this female blue dasher eating a meal, a fly or small bee possibly. Taken at Saul Lake Bog Nature Preserve near Rockford, MI
Dash 8s! Looking back 15 years ago today, there was quite a colorful set of power on CN's L506. This interesting duo was seen departing Northtown Yard, heading back to New Brighton, MN. CN 2108 had recently been repainted, and trailing was BCOL 4626, a C40-8M. Both of these units are now off of the CN roster. Time flies!
10.Feb.2011, University, Mpls, MN
The blue dasher is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.
The Blue Dasher is of the skimmer family of dragonflies. This is the male blue dasher because she is all blue with greenish blue eyes that look iridescent in sunlight. it has clear wings with dark spots on the tips. The females are brownish with yellow stripes on the body. The dasher got its name from the quick bursts of flight that are dashes between short distances.
What's an ode season without Blue Dashers?? Dragonhunters are now out at the wetlands - more soon. N Georgia
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.
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.
Poznan, Poland
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Autumn/Foggy Dawn
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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
An Ichneumon Wasp waking up to face the morning.
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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
My days of travelling Minnesota for work were almost at an end when I shot this train on the Staples Sub. The single track between Lincoln and Philbrook is not the most accessible but it was worth the short detour that was involved on trips to and from the Cities. I was likely upset that the repainted unit was third out and the leader was half primer.
A blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) enjoys a leafy respite.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
14 June 2024.
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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.
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...
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South Pond, Lincoln Park - Chicago, IL
July 2021
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What makes this Blue Dasher unusual is that he has so much color this late in the years. Even the yellow patch stands out. Ten minutes after I took this, I got a shot of a Blue Dasher that looked a little worse for wear and not half as vibrant.
DHC Dash 7 G BRYB in British Airways Express livery at Edinburgh in May 1996, delivered to Brymon in Dec 1981 the first of the type in the UK, this airliner ended its career in Canada as C GGUN with Voyageur Airways but was scrapped at North Bay Ontario in 2009.
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is an insect of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax.
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 367-80 was a prototype aircraft developed to prove Boeing's ability to produce a jet airliner and aerial refueling tanker. It's one of my favorite aircraft at the Udvar-Hazy center.
The model is at ~1/64 scale, similar to last year's B-52 and RC-2 airliner. It took about a month and a half to build, and it's my second largest aircraft at 3,355 parts.
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.