Bush Bites

Over the years our members have accumulated some wonderful photos and heart-warming stories about our Catchment. This section of our website is dedicated to telling those stories and sharing the thoughts and experiences of our members.

We hope you enjoy these tales,
which highlight the amazing
diversity of our catchment.
(image courtesy of Ed Frazer)

Balancing Flora and Fauna – Bush Bites with Ed Frazer

One of the aims of the MCCG is to restore the catchment to pre-colonisation as much as possible. This aim is to support the return..

Red-necked Wallabies – Bush Bites with Ed Frazer

We have about 10 Red-necked Wallabies living on our property in Brookfield and see many of them every day at dusk and dawn. They generally..

Bush Bites with Ed Frazer

Prized Aquarium Fishes in Local Creeks We have two small fish in Gold and Moggill Creeks that have hit the world stage as popular aquarium..

In support of common names – we are losing our vernacular

We are losing some of our most colourful and descriptive language. What is worse we are replacing names of our plants, birds, mammals and fish..

Moggill Magic – Old Gold Creek Sawmill Forest Walk

The Grand Opening Event is to be rescheduled again. Unfortunately parliament will be sitting on Dec 3rd so our officiating guest is now unavailable. The new..

Bush Bites by Ed Frazer – Moggill Creek Catchment’s wonderful waterways

The main feature of the Moggill Creek Catchment is the creek system that formed the area. It is dominated by Moggill Creek, which combines the..

Just another tree?

Across Gold Creek from my hide, where I have been monitoring a breeding Platypus in recent years, is a Sandpaper Fig. Its notable feature is..

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Ladybirds, Ladybirds and more Ladybird Beetles!

When I started on this project of producing a Ladybird Field Guide for the MCCG I thought I might find about 8 species on my..

Plant up the dams and creek sides.

The Moggill Creek Catchment is not well off for water to supply the district’s wildlife. Apart from the Gold Creek Dam and Gold and Moggill creeks..

Persistence pays off – Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

In the latest Bush Bites, Tim Spencer shares his recent experience with a Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo. Loving birds is one thing, but photographing them is..

Colin the Sparrowhawk by Ed Frazer

Late one afternoon my grandson arrived at the door with a noisy bundle of feathers. The bird, a Sparrowhawk was found on the road that..

Three Gorgeous Birds by Ed Frazer

We have three spectacularly coloured birds in the Moggill Creek Catchment that have similarly beautiful colours, but very different lifestyles. They are the Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove,..

Platypus watch August 2020 – Ed Frazer

In November 2019, Ed Frazer introduced us to a young Platypus family who also call his property home. As breeding season commences in August 2020,..

Butterfly bonanza – Ed Frazer

Lately we are having a Butterfly Bonanza! The seasonal conditions have been perfect for a build-up of butterflies to numbers we haven’t seen in years…

Water dragons – the intelligent lizards – Ed Frazer

Recently (April 2020), I have been trying to attract the platypus in our part of Gold Creek to come for a feed of crickets and..

Up the Creek – Ed Frazer

With the dry so bad I have been concentrating my wildlife photography to the two large holes of Gold Creek that border our property. Of..

Platypus pictorial December 2019 – Ed Frazer

If you’ve been following Ed Frazer’s reports about the platypus families he’s tracking in Gold Creek, you may be interested in these photos of the..

Will our platypus families survive? – Ed Frazer

It’s November 2020 and we are pleased to bring you a second installment about Ed Frazer’s platypus family sightings. Well, perhaps not so pleased, because..

Family life – Platypus style! November 2019 – Ed Frazer

We are privileged to live in an area which is so abundant in wildlife. Each morning Ed Frazer checks out the activities of two platypus..

Locating powerful owls by triangulation – Ian Muirhead & Jim Butler

The eerie “whoo-hoo” calls of the Powerful Owl can be heard across the ridges and valleys of our catchment, especially during the evenings and nights..

Funnel ants – Ed Frazer

It’s July 2019 and the recent rains have turned up some ant mounds that are conspicuous in mown lawns in the Moggill Creek Catchment area…

Birding at Gold Creek Reservoir – Jim Butler

In my last Bush Bites article I shared my love of birds and discussed the diversity of birdlife in Deerhurst Park, an area of parkland which..

Bringing back the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly – Cody Hochen

Cody Hochen is a Wildlife Conservation Partnerships Officer with Brisbane City Council. Earlier in the year we approached Cody for information about the Richmond birdwing..

Personality in birds – Ed Frazer

I wondered when I wrote this title if “personality” was the correct word for bird behavior or if it just applied to humans, so I..

My love of birds – Jim Butler

If you love birds there is always an opportunity to take your passion to a new level! My love of birds appeared within me, infusing..

Restoring weedy areas and retaining wildlife – let’s do both – Ed Frazer

When we clean up neglected areas which have been over-run with weed species and we replace them with natives, our restoration work should have the..

After the drought – Ed Frazer

The long dry spell has mixed blessings for the wildlife on our Brookfield property. The numbers of some species of birds are well down and..

Our native Moreton Bay Fig – Ed Frazer

Our native Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla) makes a wonderful habitat and is one of the best food resources for a large number of birds, insects..

Hilltopping – Ed Frazer

The steep hill behind our home runs north-south between the valleys of Gold Creek and Savages Roads. There is a continuous run of vegetation from..

Drama in the backyard – Jim Pope

MCCG Chairman Jim Pope has shared these photos taken in his garden on 4 July 2018. They show a carpet python (Morelia spilota) devouring an ..

Thoughts on climate change – Ed Frazer

It has been objective of the MCCG to restore the flora in the Moggill Creek Catchment to pre-settlement conditions. In accordance with this, the MCCG..

Frasers Banded Land Snail – Ed Frazer

The most common large native land snail found in the Moggill Creek Catchment is the Fraser’s Banded Land snail (Sphaerospira fraseri). It grows a bit..

Water weeds in our creeks – Ed Frazer

In the upper reaches of Moggill Creek and most of Gold Creek there are very few “Water Weeds”, but the same is not true of..

Red-necked pademelons are here – Ed Frazer

Which wallaby? Some time ago we published a Bush Bites article called “Which Wallaby?” In that article, Ed Frazer shared photos of wallabies he has photographed..

Harlequin Bugs – Geoff Monteith, Prue Cooper-White & Ed Frazer

Recently, Ed Frazer was fascinated by some wonderfully colourful insects he frequently encounters on his Brookfield property. It is quite likely that you may also..

Golden Orb Weavers – Ed Frazer and Robert Raven

We’ve all seen them! They’re quite prevalent in our catchment. They are large, colourful spiders suspended in impressive orb webs which seem to catch the..

Mistletoe continued

Late November 2017 The Brown Honeyeaters are back on the Mistletoe and it looks like the recent rains have encouraged them to breed again. Brown Honeyeater..

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