August 2025 Activity Details - Friday meeting, and Sunday outing to Goombungee "tip".

 CLUB MEETING: 7 pm, Friday 05 September 2025

An urban possum
Photo: L. Beaton

St. Anthony’s Community Centre, Memory Street, Toowoomba. The speaker's presentation is followed by official business and supper. 

Robert Ashdown presents "Wild in the suburbs"

Rob Ashdown has recently retired after more than a decade as Education Officer with the Queensland Museum and more than two decades as Senior Ranger with the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. He now has more time to pursue his interest in photography, which has been a passion of his for many years. 

There is no escape from wild creatures. Whether we like it or not, they do their best to share the space we humans jealously call our own. Species other than human have their own territories, and their maps and tracks are often laid quietly over the top of ours. A myriad of other creatures go about their lives around us in often surprising, resilient and resourceful ways. For most people in the suburbs, wildlife encounters usually feature the more 'charismatic' animals that wish to rearrange our gardens, steal our vegetables or move in with us, including possums, magpies, carpet pythons, flying foxes and brush-turkeys. These creatures are all part of the urban biodiversity life that makes life in the burbs a better, if occasionally challenging, proposition.

CLUB OUTING: Sunday 07 September  2025. Goombungee ‘tip’

We will try for Goombungee wildflowers again and keep our fingers crossed for mild weather.

The Goombungee Waste Management Facility holding protects a large area of pristine native vegetation beyond the rubbish sites where public access is not available. By special arrangement, guided by Lisa Churchward we are privileged to have entry to the area for this outing where it is hoped boronia, prostanthera, acacias and hovea - to name just a few will still be in flower. 

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