18/ 12/ 2021

Chasing Rainbows 2021

Hello again,

I thought this year I would do a page dedicated to my favorite BIF subject the very fast, and stunningly beautiful Rainbow Bee Eater, people who know me probably think I might be a bit obsessed with these stunning little birds and that may very well be true.

For challenging yourself, your camera’s auto focus and maybe even your sanity I can think of no better bird to give you the same thrill when you do make a nice image or two, Nature hit it out the park when they created these birds.

The Rainbow Bee-Eater is a spectacular bird. With its green, blue, chestnut and yellow plumage, its slim build, slender curved bill and distinctive streamers that extend from the end of its tail, it is simply beautiful. Bee-Eaters are a familiar sight in many lightly-timbered parts of mainland Australia, where they often perch on fence-posts or overhead wires, then launch after flying insects, flying swiftly, sometimes with rapid twists and turns, before snapping the insect in its bill, and returning to the perch to eat it.

Hope you like these little jewels, here are just a few from many thousands of my Summer of 2021 / start of 2022 with the

Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus
Meropidae