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One week left to book your ticket to ResBaz QLD 2025!

Our keynote speaker for the 3rd of July is Alise Fox, Senior Fisheries Scientist at the QLD Department of Primary Industries.
Title of her talk:

"Not Knowing Is a Feature, Not a Bug"

More info, schedule and booking link here: https://resbaz.github.io/resbaz2025qld

#SEQ #Meanjin #Magandjin #Brisbane #research

Front-facing photo of Alise Fox, with a big smile on, in front of a colourful artwork.

Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Three kookaburras came to our yard again on a rainy afternoon! We fed them some cat mince, because that's all we had on hand, but if they become regulars, we'll move to a more appropriate food for them.

Clayfield, Brisbane/Meanjin Australia

#Australia #Queensland #Brisbane #bird #Coraciiformes #Alcedinidae #Kingfisher #Kookaburra #DaceloNovaeguineae #LaughingKookaburra #Olympus #OMSystems #OM1MarkII #OLYMPUSM300mmF4 #darktable #Meanjin

A Kookaburra, on a wooden handrail, with some meat in its beak.

Backyard Kookaburra

Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

#Australia #Queensland #Brisbane #bird #Coraciiformes #Alcedinidae #Kingfisher #Kookaburra #DacelonNvaeguineae #LaughingKookaburra #iNaturalist #Olympus #OMSystems #OM1MarkII #OLYMPUSM300mmF4 #darktable #Meanjin

A kookaburra, sitting on a clothes line in a back yard

Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

#Australia #Queensland #SouthEastQueensland #Brisbane #Clayfield #naturephotography #LivingThings #animal #animalphotography #bird #Coraciiformes #Alcedinidae #Kingfisher #Kookaburra #DaceloNovaeguineae #LaughingKookaburra #Olympus #OMSystems #OM1MarkII #OLYMPUSM300mmF4 #darktable #Meanjin

A Kookaburra, sitting on a wire fence in a backyard, framed by greenery

Draw a red line against genocide - Protest for Palestine

1 pm, Sunday 15th of June 2025
King George Square
#Magandjin / #Meanjin / #Brisbane

https://www.facebook.com/events/1421615142203784

Anyone doing anything in October?

#Brisbane #CommunityRadio #4ZZZ #Meanjin

A vibrant and colourful music festival poster for "ZED 50", a market day celebrating 50 years of 4ZZZ Radio.

The poster has a psychedelic pink and yellow background. In the center, a black and white illustration of an ibis (a "bin chicken") stands on a vintage boombox. The speakers of the boombox are depicted as large, purple, hypnotic eyeballs.

The event details are "SAT 25 OCTOBER" at "ROMA ST PARKLANDS".
The lineup listed in bold, stylized fonts includes The Saints '73-'78, Regurgitator, Tropical Fuck Storm, Full Flower Moon Band, Big Noter, Butterfingers, Screamfeeder, Nice Biscuit, Party Dozen, Dancing Water, Flangipanis, Platonic Sex, and Velociraptor. In the bottom corner, a cartoon banana holds a microphone.

Chestnut-breasted Mannikins (Lonchura castaneothorax)

Toombul, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

#Australia #Queensland #Brisbane #naturephotography #animalphotography #bird #Passeriformes #Olympus #OMSystems #Mannikin #Lonchura #LonchuraCastaneothorax #ChestnutBreastedMannikin #OM1MarkII #OLYMPUSM300mmF4 #Meanjin

A male an female finch, sitting on a think slanted branch, framed against a bright blue sky. Both birds are looking towards the photographer

Great and Small

Great Egret (Ardea alba) and two Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta)

#Australia #Queensland #Brisbane #bird #Pelecaniformes #Ardeidae #Ardeinae #Egretta #Ardea #Ardeaalba #GreatEgret #Egrettagarzetta #LittleEgret #Olympus #OMSystems #OM-1MarkII #Egret #Meanjin

A great egret and two little egrets standing on a small pebble bank in the middle of a creek

Mt Coot-tha Quarry

Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

#Australia #Queensland #Brisbane #panorama #dronephotography #aerialphotography #Meanjin #Drone #Mavic4Pro #Mavic

An aerial shot of Mt Coot-tha quarry (a giant open cut mine), looking towards Brisbane City. The quarry is surrounded by trees and greenery, and has two small blue lagoons at the bottom. It is beautiful and horrifying

Black Flying Foxes (Pteropus alecto)

Taken with the 168mm lens on the new drone!

Herston, Birsbane/Meanjin, Australia

#Australia #Queensland #Brisbane #naturephotography #animalphotography #bat #flyingfox #dronephotography #darktable #DJI #Meanjin #Drone #Mavic4Pro #Mavic

A colony of black flying foxes hanging from trees

Good morning #Brisbane / #Meanjin :chicken_roll:

Mt Coot-tha Quarry, tiny planet style

Mt Cootha, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

#Queensland #panorama #quarry #aerialphotography #Mavic4Pro #Drone #Mavic #tinyplanet #MtCootha #dronephotography #Australia #Brisbane #DJI #Meanjin

An aerial panorama of a quarry, framed to look like a small planet surrounded by clouds

Book launch:

Mona Zahed - Tabkha: Recipes from Under the Rubble

"Writing from her tent in Gaza, chef Mona Zahed shares twenty of her ancestral recipes, lovingly nurtured and recalled.

Each dish is illustrated by a different artist, creating a visual feast as delicious as the food itself.

100% of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go directly to the author and her community."

https://avidreader.com.au/pages/12000-MonaZahed-TabkhaRecipesfromUndertheRubble

#books #bookstodon #Gaza #Meanjin so-called #brisbane #palestine

The purple cover the book "Tabkha" lies on a table covered by a Palestinian scarf.

Shorncliffe

Looking from the Sandgate foreshore along the Shorncliffe promenade, towards Shornecliffe jetty

Shorncliffe, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

#Australia #Queensland #Brisbane #dronephotography #darktable #aerialphotography #Meanjin #Drone #Mavic4Pro #Mavic

An aerial shot, taken from over the beach at lowtide from the Sandgate foreshore, looking towards and along the Shorncliffe promenade, towards Shorncliffe jetty

Who's keen for organising an #endOf10 event in #Magandjin / #Meanjin / #Brisbane ?
Thinking the local #Annerley community centre might be a good spot.
BCC libraries have been in my experience difficult to convince to organise one-off community run events, unfortunately (at least, to get it on their program/website for advertising). But let me know if you've had a different experience.
#floss