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Park of the Month is a key initiative of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) and NPAQ’s Parks Connect program. We’re passionate about parks, and by sharing decades of knowledge from committed volunteers, conservationists and National Park Rangers with local communities and visitors, we hope Queenslanders from all walks of life will fall in love with our amazing wild places.
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OCTOBER 2025 PARK OF THE MONTH
BELLBIRD GROVE, D’AGUILAR NATIONAL PARK
D’Aguilar National Park on Turrbal and Jinibara Country is a vast swathe of green blanketing parts of the north-eastern suburbs of Enoggera and the Gap, just 16 km from Brisbane’s city centre. Flanked by beautiful Mt Glorious and Mt Nebo in the south-west and stretching to Mt Mee in the south-east and north towards Mt Acher, this is ~40,000 ha of protected pockets of lush rainforest, running creeks and eucalypt forests, and even provides a glimpse of Wivenhoe Dam, Lake Manchester and Moreton Bay.
Visitors to Bellbird Grove can stroll the Turrbal circuit or the Golden Boulder track, or relax in the shaded picnic grounds along serene Cedar Creek and listen to the tinkling calls of Bell miners.
Look at all the fun we had at Bellbird Grove on Saturday! If you missed it, never fear! Our Park of the Month BioBlitz is on every day for the rest of October. Just take a self-guided visit to any location within vast D’Aguilar NP and upload the fungi, flora and fauna you see to our iNaturalist Project.
List your images as free to use with a CCO, CCBY, or CCNC license and have the chance to win a $20 online gift card and have your image featured in NPAQ’s Protected magazine.
Many thanks to the presenters, attendees and volunteers!
Our birdwatchers spotted 23 species – check out the list on eBird here – and managed to successfully get a count of individuals too. Huge thanks to Cathie Duffy from NPAQ’s Activity Committee for leading, and to Rob Nicholson, Harry Ting, Berri and the rest of the Birdwalkz and Cornell eBird crew for adding their birdsong expertise (and for persevering to get that Pacific Koel on camera!).
Dr Tamielle Brunt, Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Network and @PlatypusProtector, didn’t let the dry deter her! With years of eDNA data under her belt, she revealed a wealth of knowlege about platypus ecology and gave us a demonstration of how easy it is for citizen scientists to get involved.
Our sound bathers were treated to an immersive story to connect with the amazing energy of sound with Anita Cassidy Bowman from soundandserenity.com.
Jeremy Hegge, from Melbourne’s Partial Veil, introduced us to the incredible world of fungi. Despite fungi not loving the very dry weather, he still managed to find some fascinating tiny fungi on D’Aguilar National Park’s Golden Boulder trail, teaching us how to look closely to find them in any season.
Ranger Cail Parsons gave a very enlightening (or should that be en-lightning? Kaboom!) talk about the weather. He then teamed up with our amazing Volunteer Rangers for a snap in the selfie frame.
Our Roaming Cadet Rangers (ages 13–18) explored how weather affects the daily lives of Rangers and conditions in our national parks.
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