This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Twist prompt.
I had a few ideas for the prompt and even edited photos of two species of snakes before heading off in a different direction.
An adult Eurasian Blue Tit twists to feed the young while the young twist to try to get the food. The young are almost fully grown at this stage meaning that the adults often cling to the entrance hole to feed them.
12 replies on “Tuesday Photo Challenge – Twist”
I love the blue hue!! So pretty.
They’re an attractive and entertaining little bird
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So pretty.. with that shade of blue.
Interestingly, the new scientific name for the species is Cyanistes caeruleus. The first part means dark blue in Ancient Greek and the second part means dark blue in classical Latin. So translated it’s dark blue dark blue.
Oh wow, thanks for the lesson about dark blue dark blue, David.
I worked it out because every photo of the species I have on file is captioned with the old common English name and the old scientific name. Since biologists started DNA testing species a lot have been reclassified and renamed. A decent sized proportion of my natural history files now have the wrong scientific name and/or common English name in the caption.
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That’s a lot of mouths to feed 🙂
I counted 11 young but never managed to get a photo showing all 11. I got a couple of shots showing 10 young.
Blue tits are lovely. We have some that visit our garden
They’re an interesting species with some intriguing behaviour.