Moggill Creek Catchment Group is holding its annual Photographic Competition Display in Kenmore Village Shopping Centre all of the coming week (Oct 19-25). Please drop in to view the entries, including the prize winners. You can also cast you vote for the ‘People’s Choice Award’.
Make every bird count in the Aussie Backyard Bird Count from 9-25th October.
The #AussieBirdCount is a great way to connect with the birds in your backyard no matter where your backyard happens to be — a suburban backyard, a local park, a patch of forest, down by the beach, or the main street of town.
You can count as many times as you like over the week, we just ask that each count is completed over a 20-minute period. The data collected assists BirdLife Australia in understanding more about the birds that live where people live.
For more information on how to take part, head to www.aussiebirdcount.org.au
On Wednesday 30th September, Councillors Greg Adermann (Pullenvale Ward) and Steeve Toomey (The Gap) visited the MCCG native Plant Nursery at Gold Creek Dam. They were shown around by MCCG Chairman Jim Pope and Landcare Advisor Bryan Hacker, who together with Andrew Wilson is in charge of running the nursery. The nursery is run entirely by volunteers, with financial support from Brisbane City Council under the Lord Mayor’s Community Environment Grants. Working bees are held twice a month on the first and third Monday mornings and are typically attended by around a dozen volunteers. Last year the nursery produced over 15,000 native plants from around 200 species, including trees, shrubs and ground cover. Seeds are collected locally, also by volunteers and the plants are distributed free of charge to MCCG members. If you would like to volunteer at the nursery, or for more information, contact [email protected]
There are many special friendships between wild birds and people. How often do our feathered friends pop in just to see what you are up to?
In his latest issue of Feather Fascination, Jim Butler explores our changing relationship with birds and ecosystems and encourages us to make some new friends!
To find out more, head to Jim Butler’s Feather Fascination October 2020.
Test your skills each month with Jim Butler’s Wildlife Identification Quiz!
You’ll find Know Your Wildlife towards the back of every month’s The Local Bulletin.
We will provide the answers to each quiz right here in the first week of every month!
So, do you have your answers ready for the October quiz? The correct answers are:
ps: If you need some help, we’d recommend searching our digital field guides! Open them from the side menu:
These alphabetical lists provide a wealth of local information about wildlife. They feature thumb-nail images which expand to a larger view when you click upon them.
Keep an eye out for next month’s quiz!
Are you interested in participating in contributing to the health of Moggill Creek and learning about creek health monitoring?
Moggill Creek Catchment Group (MCCG) has been fortunate in gaining support from the Queensland Government to add a citizen science focus to the existing Creek Health Monitoring Program. This program will introduce community volunteers to the factors that affect creek health and will emphasise the extension and importance of this information to the community.
Volunteers will take part in monitoring water quality, diversity of macro-invertebrates and fish, and nearby creek conditions; These data will be used to assess creek health at sites across Moggill Creek Catchment, and to emphasise the benefits of environmental health of our waterways.
We encourage those who want to learn by doing, to contact:
Adrian Webb (email – [email protected])
Lewis Peach (email – [email protected])
For more information go to the MCCG Creek Health Monitoring Program
Get the kids outside and dirty these school holidays.
During any Wildlings Forest School program, you are likely to find Wildlings up trees, sliding down mud slides, whittling with pocket knives, lighting fires and building rafts. We let kids, be kids – because children can’t learn to protect nature if they’ve never had a childhood in it.
NATURE PLAY SESSIONS FOR CHILDREN
AGES 7 & UP | $45 PER CHILD (PER 3 HR SESSION)
DROP OFF LOCATIONS | BARDON ESPLANADE (BARDON), SIMPSON FALLS (MT COOTHA) & CLIVEDEN PARK (FIG TREE POCKET)
For more information go to Wildings Forest School
And what a FANTASTIC issue it is. Here is a taster of what awaits:
Sit down, relax and take some time to read ALL the news in from the Moggill Creek Catchment Group.
Click here to read the Spring Newsletter
Alternatively, you’ll always find the latest newsletter at the top right of your screen.
Our sincere thanks to Newsletter Editor Cathi Lawrence for continuing to delivering a jam packed, enthralling issue, and to our loyal and hard working contributors for their diverse and quality content. We acknowledge the skills and effort of so many MCCG members – we are indeed fortunate!
The Annual MCCG Platypus Survey was held on September 13th with some restrictions in place due to COVID-19. Approximately 55 volunteer observers participated. There were 11 definite sightings, and in addition, several ‘possible’ observations. The number of platypus seen is similar to the last couple of years, but lower than some previous surveys over the past 15 years of annual surveys. This may be due more to a lack of rain, with platypus less mobile and remaining in pools, than to a declining population. We also may miss some animals because they simply do not appear on the survey morning!
To read the full report from the. 2020 survey click here
To see some of the platypus sighting videos go to the MCCG Youtube Channel
To learn more on how to protect our local platypus click here
