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Author Archives: Mt Gravatt Environment Group
Building highway for wildlife Karawatha Forest
By: Michael Fox A beautiful day for a walk in the bush. I joined Professor Darryl Jones, Griffith University and members of Karawatha Protection Society for a field trip to explore the Fauna Movement Solutions linking Kuraby Forest and Karawatha Forest across Compton Road. The … Continue reading
Nature Rangers make Backyard Bee Homes
By: Michael Fox I’m not sure who was having more fun during the Backyard Bee Home Workshop at Downfall Creek Bushland Centre yesterday. The Downfall Team host a number of school holiday Nature Ranger activities. Jake Slinger and I represented Pollinator … Continue reading
Building homes for Brisbane birds
By: Michael Fox Meet the proud team building new homes for Brisbane birds. Yesterday, I joined Frank, Mabanza, Andy, Salinda, Greg, Jackson, Dulcie, Ryan, Jack and Chris Lockhart SQW Project Supervisor at the Hendra Pony Club site for our second … Continue reading
Greening Moorooka Pollinator Link
By: Michael Fox Today I had the honour of meeting the Greening Moorooka [Bushcare] Group who have been building a Pollinator Link between the western section of Toohey Forest and Moolabin Creek. Today’s event was a community planting in … Continue reading
Planting Habitat Tripod Crosby Road Bushcare
By: Michael Fox I joined the Crosby Road Bushcare team last Saturday to plant up the Habitat Tripod with vines and shrubs that will create safe habitat for small birds like Fairy Wrens to nest. Vines and … Continue reading
Posted in Bushcare, Pollinator Link
Tagged Butterfly, Climbing Guinea Flower Hibbertia scandens, Common Grass-blue Zizina labradus, Creeping Boobialla Myoporum parvifolium, Crosby Road Bushcare, Fairy Wrens., Great Carpenter Bees genus Xylocopa, Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus, Habitat Tripod, native bee, Native Sarsaparilla Hardenbergia violacea, Plant Local to Feed Locals
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Plant Local to Feed Locals
By: Michael Fox I just read an interesting article in Canadian Geographic: Inside the mysterious decline of Earth’s insects Why are insects important? If we want to bring beautiful birds like the Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti back to our urban gardens we need … Continue reading
Give Mum Birds, Butterflies and Bees
Order your Pollinator Link Mother’s Day Gift Pack today. Pack includes: Pollinator Link® garden certification Pollinator Link® fence sign and Blue-banded Bee on Google maps Gardman Easyclean Cat-safe Birdbath The Brisbane Bird Challenge Game: create a family challenge Pollinator Link® … Continue reading
Australian National Botanic Gardens
By: Michael Fox Bright yellow Golden Everlastings provide a cheerful welcome to the Australian National Botanic Gardens (Canberra). I particularly like ANBG because it recreates habitats ranging from rainforest gullies to central Australian desert, to present a wide variety of Australian plant … Continue reading
Posted in Pollinator Link
Tagged Aneilema acuminatum Native Wandering Jew, Austral Storks Bill Pelargonium australe, Australian Bluebells Wahlenbergia stricta, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Painted Lady, Banana Bush Tabernaemontana pandacaqui, Golden Everlastings Xerochrysum viscosum, Living Mulch
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Cooee Motel: a surprise in country NSW
By: Michael Fox Travelling to Canberra over Easter and planning to visit the Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo, we needed somewhere to stay overnight. We found Cooee Motel, a real gem in the small country town of Gilgandra, three hundred and thirty kilometres … Continue reading
Posted in Wildlife Corridor
Tagged #WaterFoodShelter, Australian King-Parrots Alisterus scapularis, Australian Painted Lady Vanessa kershawi, Casuarina, Cooee Motel, Cypress, Gilgandra, Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae, nest hollows, Tony and Lois Smolders, Western Plains Zoo, Western Rosella Platycercus icterotis
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Bushcare nursery thriving in backyard
By: Michael Fox Greg Tasney’s passion for the environment and his generosity means that he has propagated more 1,000 plants for use in restoration of his Rocky Waterholes Bushcare site. Walking round garden I was amazed by the diversity of … Continue reading
Posted in Bushcare, Pollinator Link
Tagged Bush food, Climbing Maidenhair Fern Lygodium microphyllum, Creek Mat-rush, Eastern Water Skinks Eulamprus quoyii, Figbirds Sphecotheres vieilloti, Gardening Australia, Green Mat-rush Lomandra hystrix, Hairpin Banksia Banksia spinulosa, Joseph's Coat Moth Agarista agricola, Kangaroo Vine, Lemon-scented Myrtle Backhousia citriodora, Native Mulberry Pipturus argenteus, Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus, Pipturus argenteus Native Mulberry, Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Vine Pararistolochia praevenosa, Rocky Waterholes Bushcare, Silver Plectranthus Plectranthus argentatus, Small-leaved Lilly Pilly Syzygium luehmannii, Small-leaved Abutilon Abutilon oxycarpum, Speckled Line-blue Catopyrops florinda, Splendid Ochre butterfly Trapezites symmomus, Swamp Banksia Banksia robur, Sweet Morinda Gynochthodes jasminoides (previously: Morinda jasminoides), Syzygium australe Creek Satinash, Varied Eggfly Hypolimnas bolina, Water Vine Cissus antarctica, Yellow Admiral Vanessa itea
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