KRM Branch August Excursion The August 26 field trip was to the Don Shepherd Nature Reserve, a small reserve located on the corner of Baldivis Road and Karnup Road, Karnup in the City of Rockingham. The reserve is a mixed woodland, consisting of Banksia, Tuart, Jarrah and Casuarinas with an ...
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KRM Branch August Meeting Report At our August meeting Colin Prickett presented a selection of photographs he had taken over the past few months. The presentation commenced with the KRMB visit to Dryandra Woodland in May this year and included photographs of marsupials at the Barna Mia sanctuary, bird life ...
Read more →DRB September Meeting Report Eric McCrum OAM (below) has presented talks to the DRB Nats and elsewhere for many years, but this was his debut using digital technology—at the age of 84 years, no less! Eric began by introducing us to the history of the term ‘butterfly’. Apparently, it originated ...
Read more →NSB August Golly Walk Planning Golly walks to see orchids at their best is not easy when the dates have to be set almost a year ahead. And so it turned out for our visit to St Michaels Park in Connolly. By the third week of August in 2017 there ...
Read more →Main Club August Excursion On Friday 17th August, a group of 12 naturalists from three of our branches arrived at Mt Gibson Sanctuary around midday, planning to go on our first excursion at 2pm. We decided to walk up to the quartz-stone ridge not far from our camp site, which has ...
Read more →NSB August Meeting Report Radio-tracking is used for real-time survivorship and movement monitoring of translocated animals. Photo: Saul Cowen Kelly Rayner, who spoke to us in August, is a member of the Department of Biodiversity Conservation & Attraction (DBCA) translocation team working towards reintroducing native mammals to Dirk Hartog Island, ...
Read more →DARLING RANGE BRANCH JULY MEETING REPORT. Our speaker was Andrew Moore, drone pilot and scientist. As a child, Andrew was obsessed with seeing things from an aerial perspective and was also fascinated with nature. His passion for drones has stemmed from these childhood interests, combined with his father’s involvement with ...
Read more →DARLING RANGE BRANCH JULY EXCURSION REPORT. It was a record turnout for the DRB in the Glen Forrest Superblock on 29 July when seventy-nine (yes 79!) attended, including people of all ages and backgrounds. We visited the north-facing slope of the Nyaania Creek which was in full flow on its ...
Read more →August 2018 Meeting Darling Range Branch What an amazing night this was! No fewer than 107 people—a record for the DRB—turned up to hear Yvonne Sitko of the Western Australian Birds of Prey Centre give a presentation on raptors. This was no ordinary show. We put the data projector away and ...
Read more →Main Branch August Meeting Report. We welcomed back to the Club, Robert Powell, who is well-known to many of us and who’s back in Perth for a few weeks, having been living in England since 2010. Robert is known for his excellent books Leaf and Branch and Growing Locals. He ...
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