Location: Trustees’ Room, Brookfield Showground
Type: Event
Organiser: Rebecca Bain
Contact: [email protected]
Photography Competition 2016 Awards
Location: Kenmore Village
Type: Event
Organiser: Malcolm Frost
Contact: [email protected]
Things that pierce the silence of the night
Have you ever heard a lonely, mournful wail breaking the silence of the night?
Our July edition of “Feather Fascination” reveals the story of the remarkable suburban resident behind these sad wailing calls.
Click here to learn more.
What lies beneath?
We’ve had some unwelcome guests (Tilapia) in the swimming hole near Creekside Street Kenmore Hills.
Take a look at our Ferals Animal page to learn more.
BREAKING NEWS: New bird sighting in Brookfield
On April 17th, a native bird which has never been seen in our Catchment was sighted at Adavale Street Brookfield!
This wonderful occurrence is described by Jim Butler, a local birdwatcher, in his “Feather Fascination” column in the June issue of “The Local Bulletin“.
From now on, you can also read Jim’s stories online right here on our website.
Click here to read this article and others published during 2016, and stay tuned to our Media Centre for more of Jim’s remarkable snippets about our wondrous local birdlife.
Creek Health Monitoring Survey
Location: Six Brookfield locations – contact Adrian for details
Type: Biannual Creek Monitoring
Organiser: Adrian Webb
Contact: 3374 1407 or 0412 672 283 Email: [email protected]
For more info please click here.
BRIGHT RED LADYBIRDS …
KIDS’ DAY AT THE COTTAGE – SUNDAY 12 JUNE!
10am-1pm.
Join us at the Cottage on the Gold Creek Dam Reserve at the very end of Gold Creek Road, Brookfield for a day of FUN!
You can create beautiful bright red ladybirds for mum and dad’s fridge!
Just one of the many activities you can enjoy on Kids’ Day!
There is SO much for kids to make and do and enjoy, and it’s FREE!
Choose from the following or do them all!
* Art and Craft activities | * Make jewellery to wear |
* Pot a seedling to take home | *ID the leaf shape of plants |
* Talk to the Snail Whisperer! | * Look for camouflaged insects |
* See a native bee hive working | * See display of local Dung Beetles |
Or see furry, feathery or leathery native creatures in one of Martin Fingland’s three Geckoes Wildlife sessions, which will be held at approximately:
- 10am -10.40am, 11am – 11.40am and 12noon – 12.40pm
For more info, please email Dale Borgelt : [email protected]
MCCG is proud to offer Kids’ Day at the Cottage with all its attractions and activities for young people FREE, thanks to volunteers and expert presenters, supported by the Lord Mayor’s Suburban Initiative fund, the Pullenvale Ward Councillor and the BCC Creek Catchment Program.
Calling all strategic thinkers
(members and non members alike)
The MCCG is undertaking a vital strategic planning process over the next few months to determine our priorities for future activities.
Based on last review (published in 2011) and an evaluation of the impacts of our activities since then, our aim is to assess how effective we have been in our programs. We will seek to identify new challenges and concerns which have arisen in the last five years.
We will also be canvassing the views of our members and other people and groups who work with us or who have a keen interest in what we do.
From this, we will develop our strategies and actions/projects for the future.
It is vitally important for us to continuously review our activities so we can prioritise how to best use our available time, resources and volunteer energies in the future. We will post details on the website as we progress.
If you wish to participate in any part of the process, comment on one or more of the activities we are undertaking (listed below), or if you believe there are opportunities/issues which you think have been overlooked, please let us know!
Feel free to email your views to our chairman Warren Hoey, or to any of the other committee members listed on our Contact Details page. We’re waiting to hear from you!
You are welcome to view our 2011 review and other relevant documents – please click here.
MCCG projects and activities:
- Kids Day at the Cottage
- Photography competition
- Nursery
- Landcare services
- Newsletter
- Cottage talks
- Bushcare group actions on public land
- Riparian restoration in Rowena Park
- Bird project
- Creek Health Monitoring Program
- Water Quality Monitoring
- Platypus survey
- Cat`s Claw Creeper control
- Become a Committee Member
Come see us at the Brookfield Show!
The Brookfield Show runs from 13 to 15 May at the Brookfield Showground this year.
Why not drop in for a chat?
We’re in a new spot down by the Cookery Pavilion. Hope to see you there!
Click here to see more info about the show.
Flying Fur !!! The Secrets of Microbats -Postponed from 21April to later date
This talk has had to be postponed to a later date – various permits and equipment required will not be available until later, and Dr Cole has also had to make changes to his scedule. Watch this space for a new date.Elusive secrets about the life of bats will be revealed by Dr Roger Coles from the School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences at QUT.The life of these animals is cryptic and shrouded in mystery. They are the only mammals capable of true flight – a shared ability that has evolved completely differently from birds.
Dr Coles will explain the prowess of ‘microbats’ at flying, navigating and catching prey in the dark using a precision, radar-like method called echolocation. He will demonstrate how the local forest bats do it and in real time, by tuning in to bats flying around the MCCG Cottage during the talk with the use of fancy electronics and colourful computer screens. As we cannot normally see or hear these small creatures hunting in the dark, some of their secrets can be revealed by using electronic ‘bat detectors’ and night vision scopes to make their sensory world audible and visible to us. Methods used to catch bats will be demonstrated as well.When: TBA
Organiser: Dale Borgelt
Contact: [email protected] or ph: 3374 1035