Another fabulous edition of the Moggill Creek Catchment Group quarterly newsletter is ready to read. With much appreciation to our editor Cathi and to all the contributors who make this newsletter so good!
Grab yourself a cuppa and sit back and enjoy!
The 2026 Annual Photo Competition is just around the corner and all the details, entry forms and inspiration are on the Photo Competition page.
EAVESDROPPING ON CRYPTIC SPECIES: USING ACOUSTIC MONITORING TO FIND DIFFICULT BIRDS
Guest Speaker:
Callan Alexander
Callan is a PhD student at QUT specialising in bioacoustics and is also a Threatened Species Technical Co-ordinator at BirdLife Australia.
If you would like to volunteer as a ‘platy spotter’ for the platypus survey register here:
Highlights from our annual Kids’ Day at The Cottage 2026
(always the second Sunday in June so mark your calendar for next year!)
Bugs
Kathy Ebert is our Bugs expert bringing giant burrowing cockroaches, and giant stick insects to delight and excite guests. This year Kathy had Jack and Eviie from UQ also sharing their Bugs knowledge and joy.
Snails
John Stanisic and Lorelle Holcroft are the Snail Whisperers bringing their massive collection of live snails and shells.
Butterflies
Jutta Goodwin is the fabulous butterfly queen with her awesome assistant Keith Brown bringing hundreds of butterfly facts and specimens
Feather Fun
Wesley DeMuth is our awesome BCC Creek Catchment Officer and Feather Match Up game host as well as general nature expert
Wildlife Show
Martin Fingland of Geckoes Wildlife and his menagerie of animals is always a delight
Jewellery making with Native Seeds and Beads
The fabulous natural jewellery team lead by Deb Craig, offering this much loved activity
Native Bees
The Native Bee Man aka Tony Goodrich with his gentle and busy native bees
Seedling potting
Andrew Wilson with his experienced seedling potting hands sharing his wealth of plant knowledge
The Sausage Sizzle
Thanks too Dot and the Kenmore Girl Guides and to Richard on the BBQ
Some of the fabulous volunteers
Without the help of volunteers we could not run this event. A big thank you to John, Simon and Sandy for managing the car parking, Eve for helping with ‘whatever needed doing’ and at the Wildlife Show and to the many others not in the photos!
A big thank you to our sponsors for making all this happen!
The Lord Mayor’s Community Fund
Pullenvale Ward Councillor Greg Adermann
BCC Creek Catchment Program
Seqwater
Australia Post
Quarterly Talk:
Meet the Rakali: Australia’s most underrated animal
Guest Speaker:
Dr Tamielle Brunt
Sit down with a cuppa somewhere cosy to enjoy all the treats in this season’s newsletter, and have your calendars handy to mark all the upcoming event dates.
A little snippet below of the weird and wonderful featured in this edition…
The Autumn Newsletter is ready to read online.
As always the newsletter is jam packed with articles and fabulous photos, so what are you waiting for. Grab a cuppa and enjoy this edition.
Quarterly Talk:
Climate change in Brisbane’s west – a local take on a global phenomenon
Guest Speaker:
Charles Worringham
President, The Hut Environmental and Community Association
Sitting between the D’Aguilar Range and a growing city, residents of Brisbane’s west are unusually well placed to observe and appreciate the natural world, as well as to benefit from the services and opportunities offered by a major urban centre.
Yet the same global changes that have made cities like Brisbane possible have also exerted pressures on local ecosystems – through population growth and movement, land use change and habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species and other forces.
Climate change is one of these fundamental pressures, yet as a global phenomenon, it often seems remote and its effects difficult to grasp. How does it manifest itself locally? Are there measurable indicators of change in our area, and what implications might they have for local ecosystems and their inhabitants – fauna, flora and people?
This talk will provide an update on recent climate science findings, review some significant effects known to be occurring elsewhere, and then focus on observations from our region and immediate area. Current and in-progress monitoring projects for Brisbane’s west will also be outlined.
After a career in movement neuroscience at the University of Michigan and QUT, Charles is pursuing local projects through THECA, and has written extensively on India’s energy transition.
