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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.
The year Feb 2011 snow storm dumped more then 20 inches of snow around Chicagoland .Were on the IC's Iowa division with CN Dash-8 and EJ&E SD-38 helping clear snow
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.
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.
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Blue dasher dragonfly. Pennsylvania Canal, Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Canon EOS70D
Tamron SP 150-600mm
1/160 sec.
f/8
600mm
ISO250
Monday, June 26, 2017 6:28 PM
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas. The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
For the past two seasons, I have been saying that the Blue Dasher is the most numerous of odonates, but something happened in early July this year. This is one of the last I've seen. In fact, the Blue Dasher and Flame Skimmers both seem to have "disappeared" from all our favorite ponds at about the same time. It's been a very unusual and somewhat disconcerting summer. (Two Great Egrets, one Green Heron, one Red-shouldered Hawk, no Barn Swallows... Two heat waves with high humidity, two lightning and thunder storms, followed by twenty degree drops in temperature. My notes since 2002 show August and September to be the hottest and driest months. Today's high is supposed to be 84, and I'm headed to the swamp at 10:30, late in the day for September 1. The last three years have been inactive for me due to health - and then, of course, Covid - but I've noticed that migrations and nesting have dropped off tremendously in large parts of the west. And that pretty much sums up the summer of 2020.)
Oh, help! I posted this two hours ago, and all of a sudden it and all the information about Blue Dashers disappeared! To those who left comments, thank you, but I have no idea how these things happen. Perhaps power was lost somewhere in the system due to the heat wave we're experiencing.
Basically, what I said was that it's a very common dragonfly here, but I hadn't seen one in over a month until this (really small at an inch) Blue Dasher was nice enough to perch on a Horsetail Grass for ten minutes. After he flew off, I was back to damselflies whose population is fluctuating wildly this summer.
Now for the Blue Dasher: "The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", their 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. The blue dasher grows up to 25–43 mm long (1-1.5 in).
The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
Conrail C32-8 6616 had train SPL-201, an export tractor train bound for Europe via the Port of Baltimore, tied down at Cove on a spring afternoon in 1994 in the shadow of the Pennsylvania Railroad-era signal bridge.
Back in the day before paranoia and knee-jerk reactions, it was possible to take a photo that nowadays would be unheard of. The police would have been all over me for being in the gauge taking photos in the post-9/11 world.
Perhaps I should have not been there, but it is what it is. I certainly have no reason to take photos here anymore since Conrail is long gone as is the variety.
The 6616 was a member of a ten-unit test fleet from GE that helped pave the way for GE to dominate the market.
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Blue Dasher at Springton Manor
This is among the first test images with my new camera and lens
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Dash collected this log with a large leg of meat attached and dragged it to this glade then proceeded to eat it whilst watching for any possible interference
Female Blue Dasher
So far there seems to have been surprisingly few dragonflies around the local ponds
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We took another nice hike together today. I like this one because it seems to highlight the differences in personality between Dash and Jasper.
Summer of 2017 - Morgan County, Alabama - Blue Dasher Dragonfly (please correct if i.d. is incorrect).
Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)
Charleston, South Carolina
September 10, 2016
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A pair of MRL SD40-2XRs work the Helena yard job on a crummy Thursday morning alongside a tied down Jimbo.
On my exploration yesterday I went further along the hills of northeast Tacoma than I've so far gone, and came upon Dash Point and this beach and dock and pier which is closed down with danger signs all over the place!. The sky was overcast and somewhat ominoous and there was not very much color anywhere so I thought it would look better in black and white.
NiSi 3-stop ND filter (but handheld)
Its 2002 I'm at Rondout IL tower Former Milwaukee Road -EJ&E tower .CNW Lite power coming back from a Waukegan Coal train is on the EJ&E ..Today the tower is closed but still there and the EJ&E is no longer a through route to Waukegan for coal trains .
AMTK 519, a Dash 8, leads the westbound Amtrak Cardinal through Jarman Gap, on the outskirts of Crozet, Virginia, the along the Buckingham Branch.
Before the next two days of cooling, we have today when it's supposed to be in the 90s. I'm trying to get over to the swamp, but I'm also thinking of going to Bullfrog Pond on the mountain, a hike of five hilly miles which I haven't done in five years. In case I don't return (;-) I'd like to leave you with one of my better Blue Dasher finds from yesterday.
I watched him as the Blue Dasher (a Chaser to some of you) was just finishing a survey of his territory, on this flight only 25 yards around the lagoon. Finding nothing, he returned to the one perch I was hoping for. The background is the pond. Yes, it's a greenish brown.
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas. It's so common that the ratio at our little pond is at least 50:1 over all other odonata. Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", their 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. This makes it very difficult since I don't carry a ruler, dragonflies are territorial, and you won't see male and female side by side ... not even while mating.
It is not just this dragonfly, but all odonates that are carnivorous, and are capable of eating hundreds of insects every day, including mosquito and mayfly larvae. The adult dragonfly will eat nearly any flying insect, such as a moth or fly. Nymphs have a diet that includes other aquatic larvae, small fish, and tadpoles.These dragonflies are known to be voracious predators, consuming up to 10% of their body weight each day in food.
If we're not going to save society, at least save the damsels and dragons to hold down the mosquito population.
Blue dasher dragonfly,July 26, 2021.
Blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis), a.k.a. the Swift Long-winged skimmer (they aren’t especially long-winged, though that’s what longipennis means) and the Blue pirate.
Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
Dragons and damsels exhibit behavior. Surprise! Dragonflies especially have favorite perches in their territories. If you'll note this twig that the Blue Dasher is on and the twig from yesterday's Firecracker, you'd be right in assuming that they're the same twig. I *know* where that twig is, and I stake it out. And that's the first trick of photographing dragons and damsels.
Another trick. After perching, you want to ID them. Well, as much as eyes and abdomen, look at the position of the wings. Dashers will land with wings forward most of the time. Skimmers with the wings out. I'll save the rest for next year...
I haven't been on Flickr for several years...I moved several times, started pharmacy school, sent my two kids off to college clear across the county, and have been super busy. However, this summer, I was free of both school and work and actually picked up my camera again. It was therapeutic! So even though school started back up again for me, I'm hoping to post pictures a few times a week. My husband and I joined the West Chester Photo Club this week and I'm really hoping I can continue using my cameras at least on weekends here and there. This is a Blue Dasher dragonfly that I found at Gilmore Ponds Park in Hamilton, Ohio.