The MCCG 2015 Annual General Meeting will be held at the Brookfield Hall, starting at 7:30pm on Monday 30th November. Come along to hear about A Day in the Life of a Wildlife Carer from Lexie Smith, a very experienced long term wildlife carer.
There is a full set of nominations for the committee, but if you would like to help out with the group, we’d love to receive additional nominations.
See the notice of meeting and nomination form, and the minutes of of the 2014 AGM for more details.
The winners in the 2015 MCCG Photography competition were presented with their prizes at the awards ceremony in Kenmore Village Shopping Centre on Saturday afternoon.
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The Moggill Creek Catchment Group annual photography competition is nearly here. Photographs must be submitted on Saturday October 24th so you have just one weekend left to take that winning shot.
Information on the 2015 Photography Competition and entry forms, including the Schools Category, are available for you to download on <this link is no longer available>.
Thursday 15 October 10 am- 12 Talk at the Cottage: “Why record Wildlife Sightings” by Brent Smith.
“A bird in a record is worth two in the bush”
What Brent will be talking about is how easy it can be to find out what lives in your local area and how valuable it can be to record the wildlife that you see in your area. He will be showing examples of what information is available on wildlife, how to find this information and where people are interested, how they can add to our understanding of the local environment.
Brent can explain how ehp Spot the Wildlife and collect the data. He has a background in zoo keeping, wildlife management, construction environmental management and works for ehp, but this talk is from his private passionate interest in having everyone, not just scientists, recording data relevant to wildlife and the environment.
Contact Dale Borgelt on 3374 1035 or [email protected] to book your place if you can come to this most interesting and informative talk and demo by Brent Smith about recording wildlife sightings
MCCG is looking for a volunteer website coordinator to join our team. So, if you enjoy working with computers, have an interest in local environmental matters and would like to have some fun with a like-minded group of people in a well-established community conservation group, we’d love to hear from you!
You can read more about the role in this document.
If you are interested, please contact the MCCG Secretary on 3374 1518 or [email protected].
On Sunday morning 6th Sept, 65 people braved the 4:30am start (fortunately not too cold this year!) to see if they could spot a platypus. A total of 46 sites were surveyed along both Moggill Creek and Gold Creek (Upper and Lower). Dr Chris Hosking and her team of willing helpers did a great job of organising everyone, and conducting them to their observation posts at various spots along the creeks so that we were all in position by 5:15am, before the sun appeared.
There were 11 confirmed sightings this year, mostly along the lower reaches of Moggill creek and mid-Gold Creek. You can see a short video of one of the sightings here – thanks to Debra Miller and Tim Vanlint.
The team of observers enjoyed a great breakfast at the Brookfield Showgrounds, with an informative talk by UQ Honours student Tamielle Brunt on her platypus research. Wildlife Queensland also kindly brought along an informative display, including a very well preserved platypus for people to see ‘up close’!
For a map of the observation spots, and further information on survey findings, see the Platypus Survey page.
A big thank you to all volunteers and to Chris Hosking and her team, not forgetting the providers of the breakfast!
The Annual MCCG Kids Day at the Cottage on Sunday 7th June 2015 was a great success, with attendance of over 400!
Presenters were busy the whole time with popular attractions and activities for enthusiastic youngsters, watched by equally enthusiastic family.
The Presenters, all with popular activities, were:
MCCG is grateful to all our presenters who give so freely of their time, and thanks them all for agreeing to present again next year (They are booked for Sunday 29th May 2016).
Martin Fingland was almost overwhelmed by the size and spread of the audience which exceeded the ability of our sound system to reach the edges. Next year we’ve booked him for the whole time from 10am -12.30pm so that he can present smaller shows in a marquee. (He has never seen so many kids at once.)
Then there was our wonderful team of sausage sizzlers, Warren and Julie Hoey, Richard Woodhead and John Crowley trying manfully to keep up with demand.
A great day was had by all, and we look forward to seeing everyone again next year …
Are you one of the people using the trail through Deerhurst Park to walk or ride on? If so, you might be interested in helping to maintain the path, which is under threat. Recent attempts to address the erosion problems have been stymied by vandalism.
If you’d like to help, please contact Mike Humphrey on 3374 1467.
MCCG has a new Facebook page! We invite you to view it…
If you would like to use Facebook to follow the activities of MCCG and learn interesting information on the conservation and improvement of your Moggill Creek catchment, please ‘like’ the page and ‘subscribe’ to our event notifications.
Click here to take a look!
We also welcome your suggestions and contributions on the page.
In a recent article in the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators Newsletter (Number 125, June 2015), Bryan Hacker introduces the Moggill Creek Catchment Group and its activities, and discusses particularly what MCCG is doing to deal with the major environmental threat posed by Cats Claw.
You can read Bryan’s article here (Reproduced with permission).
