At the beginning of the year when planning our calendar of events, this June 24-25th weekend visit to Goodale Sanctuary was envisaged to be primarily focused around fungi. However, the dry start to Perth’s winter has resulted in conditions being far from ideal for fungi. With quite a few members ...
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Over the four days of this excursion, 11 members and two guests came and went at various times to enjoy the delights of Dairy Wells, five kilometres from Cue. Some camped, others caravanned and the remainder slept in vehicles. The weather remained dry; in fact the weather had been dry ...
Read more →Our June meeting was an old-fashioned style of Retired and Leisured Group meeting where each member speaks. In this case their contribution was to be about birds in Western Australia. Robin Roe brought in a copy of N. Cayley’s book What Bird Is That?, to which she was introduced as ...
Read more →Our June meeting saw us return to Naragebup for the evening, where guest speaker Pauline Whitehead delivered a talk on Reptiles. The reason for the venue change was so that Pauline could give us a hands-on experience using the reptiles from the exhibit at Naragebup. The first exhibit she showed ...
Read more →Main Club June 2017 Allan Burbidge talked to us about two critically endangered, ground-dwelling parrots: the Western Ground Parrot and the Night Parrot. Allan is a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) and over the last 30 years has carried out biological surveys and studied ...
Read more →Main Club May 2017 Our speaker for May, Julianne Waldock, is a technical officer at the WA Museum, working with spiders and myriapods (centipedes, millipedes etc.). The majority of her research has been on spider taxonomy, as well as some centipede taxonomy. Julianne began with four uncommon and unusual spiders ...
Read more →Our May meeting was a Members’ Night. The first presenter was Bob Goodale. Bob and Lynette had recently returned from a trip to Botswana and Bob brought along a number of photographs taken during that trip. These covered a wide range of Africa’s wildlife and included shots of birds, iconic ...
Read more →YOUNG NATURALISTS EXCURSION REPORT May 21 2017 Locals Kirsten Tullis and Russell Chambers joined Roz, Sophie (the dog), Steve and Rosie (the Young Nats!) for a really lovely walk in Lightning Swamp on May 21. Rain threatened; however we were really fortunate that the grey rainclouds moved over and the ...
Read more →On Monday, May 8, those of us who arrived at Collie early enough drove to Honeymoon Pool in the afternoon. It lived up to its romantic name with large round stones and floating ducks in the still water, framed by trailing WA Peppermints. There were many Currawongs, busy on the ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH EXCURSION REPORT GOLLY WALK: I remember visiting the Channel 7 studios for Telethon thirty years ago. How the site has changed! Today the site is being developed as a new housing estate but fortunately, like our GOLLY walkers in May, the residents will be able to explore ...
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