26 June 2022 For our field outing to Goodale Sanctuary, a great turnout of 14 joined our hosts, Bob and Lynnette Goodale, on a beautiful winter morning. Goodale Sanctuary is a private conservation property of roughly 100 acres adjacent to Nine Mile Nature Reserve in West Coolup, southwest of Pinjarra. ...
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8 July 2022 Forty members and visitors gathered outside the Herdsman Lake Discovery Centre, feeling optimistic and ready to look for frogs around the lake’s edges. As it was still quite light, our leader and frog expert, Paul Doughty, spent a few moments describing some of the common frogs of ...
Read more →20TH June 2022 The guest speaker for the June meeting was Jake Cherry, and his presentation was entitled Naragebup and the Intertidal Communities of Point Peron. Jake is a marine biologist who recently volunteered at Naragebup, the Rockingham Regional Environmental Centre. Jake started his presentation with a description of the ...
Read more →1st July 2022 Our speaker was Paul Doughty, Curator of Herpetology at the WA Museum, whose interests are mainly frogs and geckos. He focused on the frogs of the Southwest. He said frog species are relatively easy to distinguish because, as a rule, you can use the calls instead of ...
Read more →Kwinana, Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 22nd May 2022 A group of eight members attended our Field Outing at the Alcoa Wellard Wetlands. The weather gods were kind to us, providing a pleasant morning and holding off on the rainfall until later in the afternoon. The Wellard Wetlands are a series of ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 22ndJune 2022 The chilly 8:00 am start the morning after the winter solstice did not stop eleven members and a WA Natural History Lovers visitor from joining Friends of Koondoola Bushland convenor, Jennie Villiers, and City of Wanneroo Conservation Officer, Sasha Poli, for a very interesting walk ...
Read more →DRBNats, 21st May 2022 This meandering walk trail in the magnificent Ellis Brook Valley is just off the Tonkin Highway, 15 km from Gosnells. We saw a variety of orchids and landscape trees generic to the area. Eucalyptus wandoo and Acacia dentifera were in abundance (not yet flowering). We walked ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 15th June 2022 When our scheduled speaker for June was unavailable, we invited Jennie Villiers, Convenor- Friends of Koondoola Bushland, to speak to us about the history and biodiversity of Koondoola Regional Bushland. This proved to be a very fortunate choice as Jennie offered to take us ...
Read more →Main Club, 3rd June 2022 Our speaker was Bernie Masters, president of the Busselton Naturalists’ Club for the last 40 years. Bernie is a biologist and geologist who has worked in environmental assessment and mine site rehabilitation for many years and has had personal experience with fire management. Bernie pointed ...
Read more →By the time we turned around at the Woodbridge boat ramp, seven kilometres upstream from Guilderton, we had passed probably the best stands of Tuart in the State, large expanses of Swamp Paperbark, a hillside of Allocasuarina sp., possibly cumulus and closer to the river, three species of banksia, B. menziesii, B. littoralis and B. attenuata.
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