KRM Branch December Field Trip Report A group of 11 members and guests gathered on a beautiful morning to catch the first ferry from Mersey Point to Penguin Island for KRMB’s last field trip of 2019. Arriving at the Penguin Island jetty we got our first sighting of Bridled Terns. ...
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KRM BRANCH November EXCURSION REPORT The November excursion was to AQWA at Hillarys Boat Harbour. We met up at the ticket kiosk at opening time to join a growing line of patrons making their way inside. Once inside we made our way through the exhibits, starting with the stunning Leafy ...
Read more →SECOND EDITION Paperback | May 2019 | $ 45.00ISBN: 9781486307241 | 280 pages | 245 x 170 mmPublisher: CSIRO PublishingColour plates, Illustrations, Photographs ePDF | May 2019ISBN: 9781486307258Publisher: CSIRO PublishingAvailable from eRetailers The first edition of Kaplan’s book, published in 2004, was based on ten years of her research on Australia’s ...
Read more →DRBNats Georgina Steytler is one of Australia’s top bird photographers and has won many awards. It was clear from the photographs that she showed us why, as they were stunning. She took us beyond the simple reporting of birds to the artistic highlighting of their features and her teaching techniques ...
Read more →With our regular Chairperson away, Colin Prickett chaired the Annual General Meeting of KRMB. The minutes of the 2018 AGM were read and accepted as correct. Treasurer Rosalie Barritt then presented the financial report. With most members of the committee happy to sit for another year there was only one ...
Read more →The Northern Suburbs Branch held its AGM on the 18th December. Prior to the AGM Don Poynton (Branch Chairperson) donned a Santa Claus hat and conducted a short quiz based on the scientific or common names of WA flora and fauna that were in some way related to Christmas. The ...
Read more →Dr Tony Start’s talk was the second of our annual DRB Elders’ talks. These aim to preserve the knowledge of our long-standing members. Tony had especially digitised his photographs and slides using the DRB Nats scanner, (kindly donated by Matthew Hughes, MLA). Tony is a highly regarded natural history expert. ...
Read more →For a different kind of excursion we booked a houseboat for a weekend to allow us to explore the Murray River and Peel Harvey Estuary. The weather forecast was for a sunny weekend as our group of 10 members arrived at the Ravenswood depot at 9.00am on Saturday October 26 ...
Read more →Deceased member of the Naturalists’ Bushwalking Group, Katsu Young, made a generous bequest to the Bushwalking Group in 2017. With Katsu’s blessing, part of the bequest was to be used to create a memorial to Alan Notley (1928-2016), who founded the Bushwalking Group more than forty years ago. The Old ...
Read more →October GOLLY Walk ‘Two for the price of one’ Due to a ‘senior’s moment’ I planned our Golly Walk in Thaxter Park, Landsdale a month too early! Consequently, the mass showing of Christmas Morrison (Verticordia nitens) was nowhere to be seen. Nevertheless, our short walk through the park did reveal ...
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