Established in July 1998, Osborne Road Bushcare Group is dedicated to preservation and restoration of natural environment at Pullen Road Park, Osborne Road, Mitchelton. The group is part of Brisbane City Council Habitat Brisbane Program and works on a bushcare site containing pre-clearing Regional Ecosystem 12.3.11 Eucalyptus tereticornis +/- Eucalyptus siderophloia, Corymbia intermedia open forest on alluvial plains usually near coast (Of Concern) and 12.11.5 Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata woodland to open forest +/- Eucalyptus siderophloia/E. crebra, E. carnea, E. acmenoides, E. propinqua on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics (Least Concern). The site includes sections of mapped koala habitat area (core) and high value regrowth.
The group has steadily replaced weed species like Tecoma (yellow jacaranda), Singapore Daisy, Madeira vine, and Glycine appropriate local plants. At least 3,500 plants, ranging from grasses to trees, have been planted to try and recreate lost habitat. Weeping lillypilly (Waterhousia floribunda) is naturally regenerating in stream bed.
Participation of volunteers has come from areas including Everton Park Saturday Cub Scouts, students at Grovely TAFE, Conservation Volunteers Australia, Greening Australia, and local residents.
Fauna sightings include kingfishers, swallows, wrens, honeyeaters, pheasant coucals, carpet snakes, bandicoots, and even a lone Rufous Night Heron in creek bed. Kedron Brook Catchment Branch monthly bird walks take place through this bushcare site on first Sunday of May each year.
Past Projects
In March 2008, an extension of Greenway was completed from Osborne Road (opposite Teralba Park) to Lansvale Street, including one of longest bikeway bridges over Brook. See details on our Projects section page. In 2010, Kedron Brook bikeway, stage three, finished a final link in Kedron Brook bikeway network between Teralba Park and Woking Street at Mitchelton.
Osborne Road Bushcare Group is home to one of Brisbane Catchments Network (BCN) Photo Monitoring Posts. Located on bikeway bridge between McConaghy Street and Osborne Road, Mitchelton. Details can be found on BCN website here.
Location
Pullen Road Park, Osborne Road, Mitchelton (see map below) along banks of Kedron Brook off Osborne Rd Mitchelton (opposite entrance to Teralba Park), covering eastern bank from Osborne Road bridge up to just past Greenway bridge that crosses into Pony Club Bend.
Contact us
We welcome anyone and everyone to enjoy our bit of Brook.
The group meets on 1st Saturday of each month, 8:00 am to 10:00am. Activities usually start from near Osborne road traffic lights opposite Teralba Park.
Check out Facebook page here
For further details about our activities, please contact Bushcare Leader, Keren Sweeney on 0478 219 651. She can also advise about any basic protective clothing and footwear you’ll need and safeguards against insects and sun.
Kedron Brook Art and Sculpture Project launched in 2008 along newly established Kedron Brook Bikeway at Mitchelton (Photo by Keren Sweeney)
