September 2019 KRM Branch We had a total of 10 participants for KRMB’s visit to the Dryandra Woodlands, which commenced on Friday 20th due to the cottages only being available on the Friday and Saturday nights. The weather forecast was for fine but cool days and cold nights. A group ...
Read more →Month: October 2019
GOLLY, thirteen might be unlucky for some, but for the thirteen members and visitors who joined us at Allen Park Bushland, Swanbourne it was just the opposite. We were very fortunate to have passionate and skilful guides, Joan and Rob Sharpe, as our leaders. Both are long time members of ...
Read more →Three members made presentations at the September meeting. First up was Chris Punter, who showed some photos that he’d taken during a recent trip to Broome. He had seen a nice variety of birdlife, including Great Bowerbird, Nankeen Kestrel, Grey-crowned Babbler, Singing Honeyeater, Brown Booby, Reef Heron, Barred Doves, Masked ...
Read more →September 2019 Presenter Hazel Dempster has made an outstanding contribution to the knowledge of Australian plants, in a voluntary capacity during her membership of the Wildflower Society of WA for over 40 years. She is an Honorary Life Member of that Society. Hazel is also a voluntary associate consultant with ...
Read more →Bronwyn Ayre, a PhD candidate at UWA and BGPA (Kings Park), is studying the pollination of Red and Green Kangaroo Paws. Her talk covered many aspects of Kangaroo Paws and Catspaws, including a description of each one in WA, e.g.: Anigozanthos flavidus – Tall Kangaroo Paw Anigozanthos bicolor – Little Kangaroo Paw ...
Read more →The Cocanarup Timber Reserve is 15 km south-west of Ravensthorpe and encompasses 9000 ha of native vegetation, including approximately 1000 ha of mature salmon gum woodland. It lies at the heart of a wider surrounding area of 65,000 ha of bushland stretching south to the Fitzgerald River National Park and ...
Read more →ADVERTISEMENT 11kms East of Merredin. 1km from Great Eastern Hwy. 200ha for cropping/stock, lease options. Mains water connected. Large open shed and holding yards 120ha fenced beautiful native bushland. Connects to 700ha of DBCA Nature Reserve on two sides and Old Standard Gauge Rail Reserve on north side Flora/wildflowers: 210 ...
Read more →October Meeting Our speaker was Diana Prada, a PhD student at Murdoch University, whose current research focuses on the population genomics of microbats and the viruses they carry. She has expertise in applying molecular tools to conservation projects. Surprisingly, bats—which are the only nocturnal flying mammals—make up 20 per cent ...
Read more →September 2019 Meeting Our speaker was Nat Reisbeck-Brown, a spatial scientist who has been working on the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). Nat walked us through some of the features of this database of nature observations, so that we can use it to find out more about our local areas ...
Read more →The DRB Nats were delighted to welcome Tim Clifford, The Greens (WA) MLC for the East Metropolitan region, at our DRB Nats meeting on 11th October for our first ever night at Woodlupine Hall in Forrestfield. Tim presented the club with a sophisticated stereo-microscope and five hand lenses. These will ...
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