September: Main Club Excursion Ten of us joined excursion leaders, Ry Beaver and Tanya Marwood at this unique reserve east of Pingelly. Tutanning NR is a DBCA managed property with accommodation at the Percy Marshall field station. The habitat is Wandoo woodland, with some kwongan heathland and several large granite ...
Read more →News & Reports
August KRM Branch meeting With spring just a couple of weeks away the topic for the August meeting was orchids, and the speaker was Colin Prickett. This topic was scheduled to provide extra motivation for audience members to get out and about in reserves throughout the South-west in search of ...
Read more →August NSB Meeting In the past it would have been called science fiction, today it is referred to as cutting-edge research, tomorrow it will be the norm! This is possibly the best way of summarising the information delivered by our speaker, Dr Olly Berry, leader of CSIRO’s Environomics Future Science ...
Read more →The City of Melville hosted a three-hour bird workshop by the DRB on 7th September, and about 45 members and visitors attended. Prior to the workshop, two of us spent an hour doing a bird count at the workshop location: the AH Bracks Library on Canning Highway. The list was ...
Read more →JULY 2019 EXCURSION #2: To celebrate National Tree Day, six members of the WA Naturalists’ Club and seven Club visitors teamed up with the Friends of the Western Swamp Tortoise and the Chittering Landcare Group at a tree planting day at the Ellenbrook Nature Reserve. After a couple of hours ...
Read more →6 July 2019 On a rather soggy Saturday morning, 17 Nats’ Club members and friends held a Fungal Foray at Lyn Myles place which is tucked away in Glen Forrest. Her property borders onto national park, close to Mundaring Weir. Lyn’s property is jarrah/marri regrowth woodland with balgas, banksias and ...
Read more →JULY 2019 KRMB Numbers were down for our July meeting with several members away. After the formal aspects of the meeting were completed, Colin Prickett presented a selection of photographs of recent sightings. The first group of images was taken on recent walks through the Don Shepherd Nature Reserve in ...
Read more →JULY Semi-retired geologist Peter Alcock is fascinated by the influence of natural earth processes over long periods of time on landscapes, human history and behaviour. His presentation, illustrated with stunning photos and appropriate musical interludes (of “Rock” music of our youth) took us through a geological journey spanning 4500 Ma ...
Read more →AUGUST: Suzanne Thompson, an Environmental Officer at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, started her talk with a video taken downstream of the Canning Dam. It showed the various fish we have in the dams, remnant pools and streams of the Canning River and Helena valley areas. She explained ...
Read more →Our speaker was Simon Cherriman, a long-time member of the Nats’ Club (DRB Branch) and a former Serventy Memorial Prize-winning student. Wedge-tailed Eagles have been Simon’s passion since he was a child, when he would explore the bush by bike and make detailed notes on his sightings. His skill at ...
Read more →