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The bird that cannot be
Long ago, when Europeans wanted to say that something was so impossibly rare that it not only didn’t exist but couldn’t exist, some used a…
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Wild world of fungi
IN the wilds of the Amazon rainforest there lives a mushroom which goes by the name of Pestalotiopsis microspora. It doesn’t have a common name…
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Wild fungi wonders: part 3
There are mushrooms which can force a way through a thick, solid seal of newly laid bitumen road. And this mighty powerlift, from a standing…
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Twelfth Night Theatre’s owner comes home to Boonah
A young Boonah schoolgirl named Gail came home from class one day to find Scarlett O’Hara sitting at the kitchen table eating Sao biscuits topped…
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Wild fungi wonders
During a walk in one of our local forests, have you ever noticed shallow holes dug by animals around the roots of a tree? Perhaps…
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A photographer’s trip through the outback: Part 2
by KAYE MARTIN Lyle tells us of one story that touched the couple and really made the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic very real. “We were out…
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Covid could reshape society in 100 different ways … hopefully for the better
By Peter Trehearn This short excerpt is from a poem titled “ I’d pick More Daisies” “If I had my life to live over, I…
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a photographer’s trip through the outback during quarantine
By KAYE MARTIN WHEN photographer Lyle Radford suggested a ‘holiday’ to Birdsville, his wife should have known there would be more to it. Lyle smiles as…
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Keeping the greenest place in town green
What is a golf course without a green? For the Boonah Golf Club, it’s been a hard task keeping that green from going brown. It’s…
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Fine feathered friends: Kingfishers and bower birds
Photos by Lyle Radford. Brown goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) (C) This goshawk is characterised by frantic flapping interspersed with short glides and can be seen over…
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Some of the best hikes in the Scenic Rim
Peter Trehearn spent 30 years working at Brisbane Grammar School’s Outdoor Centre and regularly took boys up Mt Greville, Mt Edwards and Mt Moon. That…
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Some of the honey eaters you may see in your backyard
Photos by Lyle Radford. This week we feature more birds found in our area as recorded by the Fassifern Field Naturalists during the last 30…
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