Kwinana/Rockingham/Mandurah Branch Field trip to Tern Island On Sunday 17th February at 8am ten KRMB members gathered in the car park next to the yacht club, where the Safety Bay jetty used to be, for the February field trip, a beach walk at Tern Island nature reserve at Safety Bay. This nature ...
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Kwinana/Rockingham/Mandurah Branch The February meeting saw 13 members turn up for our first meeting of the year – a Members’ night. There were three presentations of photographs from trips made by various members to the Mid West, Gascoyne and Pilbara regions. First up were Bert and Ailsa Rabone who showed ...
Read more →Around 25 members, past KRMB members and visitors from other branches attended our Christmas get together for a BBQ lunch at Lake Richmond. It was good to once again meet up with Anne and Otto Mueller, Peter Wilmott, Roz Hart and Margaret Larke. Prior to settling down for lunch a ...
Read more →In October 2012, the Australian Naturalists’ Network (ANN) was held in Canberra – the seventh time since the first gathering in Alice Springs in 2000. 61 naturalists came from Chinchilla to Launceston, from King Island to Sale, Timboon to Geelong and including 14 from WANats, some of whom have attended ...
Read more →The Young Naturalists met entomologist David Knowles for an evening focussing on invertebrates at Star Swamp for our last event of 2012. This began with a presentation during which more than 20 Young Naturalists sat quietly listening as David described the major groups of invertebrates and showed photographic examples that ...
Read more →Field Trip 9th December 2012 to Penguin Island Six members met on a warm morning to catch the ferry over to Penguin Island. Our visit was timed to coincide with the annual influx of nesting Crested Terns and Bridled Terns. The Bridled Terns are present in large numbers on the ...
Read more →Our guest speaker for the final meeting of 2012 was our Treasurer, Eric McCrum, who presented us with a slide show and talk entitled “The night sky”. By way of introduction we were reminded that, as a natural science, star gazing would have been one of the earliest sources of ...
Read more →Excursion Sunday 18th November 2012 to Rockingham Lakes Regional Park Lake Coolingup Nine of us met at 9:00am to walk some of the perimeter track. Lake Coolingup is Aboriginal for The Place of the Children and nearby is the Children’s Forest. On Easter Sunday in 2009 there was an ...
Read more →Katinka works in Paganoni, Ludlow Forest and Yalgorup National Park on the methods of management and restoration of Tuart woodland ecosystems. Tuart woodlands are limited to coastal areas in the south west and have been considerably fragmented by clearing for agricultural land and suburban development. As well as these threats ...
Read more →BirdLife Education Office, Rod Smith, met twelve Young Naturalists and their families at Herdsman Lake for an afternoon focussing on birds. Rod began the afternoon with a slide show of birds likely to be seen later in the day. Everyone enjoyed calling out the names of the birds they knew, ...
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