April | 2026 | Nature's Place

Rainbow’s End

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Earlier in the year I discovered a colony of Rainbow Bee Eaters nesting on the bank of a tidal creek nearby, Eprapah creek.

It’s an untidy and not very welcoming spot, frequented by not too many fishers by day and party-makers and drinkers by night.

I aim for somewhere in between them but it doesn’t always work out that way, gotta share the space sometimes and see some strange things.

But the point is there were all these Rainbow Bee Eaters all of a sudden in spring to early summer, and then just as suddenly they were gone.

They were only there to nest and raise their young and then took them off into the wider mangrove forest to learn the ways of being a Rainbow bird.

They shared the space a while …