Another "Tiny Tuesday" challenge this time the theme was "out of season", whilst heading towards the seafront in Torquay I noticed that one of the tourist shops had decided to open and had a display of colourful children' spades outside this became my blip for 15th January. As I carried on down the road I saw the first of my "extras" in the window of a closed shop.
After grabbing these I headed over to the Recreation Ground to see if there was anything interesting around. High in the trees I spotted what I thought (and have since had confirmed) was a buzzard, this I have since found out is one of two that can be regularly seen in this area. I had hoped he would come a bit lower but he wouldn't oblige, the first of the two shots is a crop of the first.
The last shot is an infiltrator on the pond, all the other ducks here are male and female mallards, I was told that this is a Painted Mandarin but I think it looks more like a female Wood Duck.
Wednesday dawned with a not very promising look, it was raining. But by mid morning the rain had stopped so I decided to chance it and set out to try and capture some better shots of the buzzard spotted on Tuesday. I managed to grab a couple of mediocre shots but had to give up as the rain returned.
By 4 o'clock the rain had cleared and there was the start of a very nice sunset, sadly by the time I had finished what I was doing and made it down to the seafront I was just in time to catch the last of it. Having come out and still needing a blip for the "Wide Wednesday" challenge, I headed over to the harbour to capture some "night" shots of the Millennium Bridge that links the North and South piers of the inner harbour. The actual shot I chose for my 16th January blip was a version of the pic in the bottom left of the collage but had me walking towards the camera.
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