Here’s a peek at the neckwear the kids will be creating this year at the very popular jewellery-making stand at Kids’ Day at the Cottage.

Each year our wonderfully generous and talented Deborah Craig designs something with a focus on natural products for the kids to make.

For 2017 these will include hand-made pottery beads, and bamboo, and seeds.

Here is a snapshot of Deborah modelling one of her fabulous creations!

• 30% of the 660 Land for Wildlife properties in South East Queensland are in the Moggill Creek Catchment!
• And 40% of all eligible properties in Moggill Creek Catchment are in the Land for Wildlife Program.

But wait, there’s more ! ….

• 10 Habitat Brisbane Groups out of 148 across Brisbane are in the Moggill Creek Catchment!

Landholders living around Moggill Creek clearly care about preserving the region’s stunning natural environment. Land for Wildlife is a voluntary program that helps landowners identify unique and often threatened plant and animal species and gives advice on how to help manage them. Through Land for Wildlife you can learn about native plants, animals and ecosystems on your property and get advice on managing threats such as weeds and pest animals.

To become a part of this huge and growing network, please visit the Land for Wildlife South East Queensland website.

Nature writing is an opportunity to imbue emotion and creatively record our experience of nature and landscape. Brisbane City Council’s Creek Catchments Program invites you to submit your own insights or reflections on ‘The Nature of Brisbane’ to its first ever Nature Writing competition.

Entries will be judged by a panel including local author Dr Inga Simpson (Mr Wigg; Nest; and Where the Trees Were). The winner will have their piece published in a future edition of The Regenerator and will win a book pack of nature-related texts, with the opportunity to attend a nature writing workshop with Dr Inga Simpson. Five runners up will receive a selected nature text and also have the opportunity to attend a nature writing workshop.

Entries should be an essay or prose piece on the theme “The Nature of Brisbane”, with a maximum of 1000 words. The competition opens 1 May 2017 and closes on 30 June 2017.

For terms and conditions and information on how to submit your entry, e-mail:

[email protected].

The ‘Common Myna Humane Reduction Program’ is a community program of the Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee which creates community awareness of the Common Myna.

The committee is holding a free workshop at Kenmore Library on Friday 26 May 2017.

For more info, please visit our Events Calendar.

Conservation efforts are reaping great rewards in a small Brookfield park between Gap Creek Road and Brookfield Road.

The tireless efforts of Mike Humphrey’s Bushcare group, combined with work by local residents means that eventually the width of the park’s riparian zone will be doubled. An outstanding result!  … and the bird numbers confirm it! 

Click here to open the May edition of Jim Butler’s “Feather Fascination” and learn just how many bird species have used the restored habitat in Deerhust Park. 

It’s pretty amazing and VERY encouraging!

A male Golden Whistler – one of the many birds spotted in Deerhurst Park Photo courtesy of Ed Fraser

Here’s what the Gap Creek Bushcare crew have achieved in a year!

In February they were helped by the Brookfield Bike Riders Club who use the park on their way to the trails on Mt Cootha.  This is the third time in the last 2 years that the bike riders have helped out – great effort!

Last year’s planting – looking great!
To start, 343 holes were dug this year with an auger
Then the plants went in …
And here are the people who achieved all this: The Gap Creek Bushcare group  AND the Brookfield Bike Riders Club!

If you’d like to contribute, please phone Mike Humphrey on 3374 1467.

Get snapping! Each year the MCCG supports THECA (The Hut Environmental and Community Association) with the production of Brisbane’s Wild West Calendar.

Since 2000, the calendar has featured the flora and fauna and remarkable diversity of Brisbane’s Western suburbs, and has showcased the work of many talented local photographers.

The calendars are produced jointly by:

• THECA (The Hut Environmental and Community Association Inc.)
• Moggill Creek Catchment Group 
• Cubberla Witton Catchments Group and 
• REPA (Rural Environment Planning Association).

THECA is now calling for submissions for its Wild West Calendar 2018 … so GET SNAPPING!

 … could you set aside 2 hours this Saturday afternoon?

Our McKay Brook bushcare team has a working bee at Kenmore. It starts at 2pm.

It’s very informal and friendly, and the time passes quickly!

We’ll provide refreshments and Mother Nature will provide the sunshine!

Please consider helping out. Our Working Bee Calendar has all the details.

We have three working bees this Sunday 30 April.

And they may just be around the corner from you!

Can you spare a few hours to kick start your Sunday AND help us out?

  PLEASE check our calendar to see if you can fit something in!

Thanks to the generosity of the Red Cross, the MCCG now has an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) installed at the Nursery. This will improve safety for our volunteers, due to the isolated nature of the Cottage.

The Lifeline View defibrillator has an innovative LCD video feature that literally shows rescuers how to perform each step of a Sudden Cardiac Arrest rescue in real time – in accordance with the latest Australian Resuscitation guidelines.

The colour video is reinforced by loud and clear audio and corresponding text that can be understood in noisy environments. For example, when the VIEW’s audio says and text reads: “Place pads on patient’s chest,” the video shows exactly where to place the pads.

The defib was paid for in full by a grant received from the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR). 

*Project Defib is a Red Cross initiative which aims to reduce the number of deaths caused by sudden cardiac arrest by making defibrillators and related training and support accessible to sporting clubs, schools and not for profits across Australia. More than 30,000 Australians suffer from sudden cardiac arrest every year of which only 5% survive. Immediate access to a defibrillator can lead to a 70% survival rate if applied quickly. Project Defib is a national program which enables every sporting club, school and not for profit in Australia access to a subsidised Lifeline VIEW Defibrillator package which includes training and ongoing support. For more info, please visit their website.

SUCH exciting news! Ed Fraser captured this photo of the Superb Fruit-Dove on 18th April. 

It was taken at Brookfield and is the first recorded sighting of this bird in our catchment EVER!

Ed believes the bird may have been on its way to the Cape or Papua New Guinea.

There are fifty Fruit-Doves worldwide but only three are found in Australia: the Rose-Crowned, the Wompoo and the Superb.   

Now all three have been photographed right here in our catchment!

If you’d like to learn more about Fruit-doves, please click here to open the March 2017 edition of “Feather Fascination“.
Photo courtesy of Ed Fraser