A small band of six members attended our excursion to Lake McLarty on November 26 last year. It is a freshwater lake and associated nature reserve located south of Mandurah, with an area of 219ha. It is an integral part of the Peel–Yalgorup System, one of the largest and most ...
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Gilbert Marsh was a well-known Club member who died on 22 June last year. Born in England in November 1925, he came to Australia with his farming family when he was three years old. Despite some tough times, in 1946 Gilbert managed to graduate from UWA. In 1957 he was ...
Read more →Twenty students from Year Six and two teachers, from Good Shepherd Primary school in Kelmscott, were taken on a nature walk around their property by an expert group of DRB members. Joff Start and Mike Green took half of the group bird watching and the other half were led by ...
Read more →Thanks to the Shire of Mundaring, members of the DRB attended a free, three-hour workshop in November on understanding the birds in their garden. It was presented by DRB Chairperson Rachel Green, and Mike Green (DRB Treasurer and bird enthusiast.) Seventy-two people attended and it fostered a love and knowledge ...
Read more →The Twin Creeks conservation area, run by the Friends of the Porongurup Ranges, is a stunning area of rich and rare flora and fauna. Thirty-three members of the Darling Range Branch visited it on the September long weekend last year and were bowled over by the number and diversity ...
Read more →The Club led a 4WD excursion to the Helena and Aurora Range (HAR), Mt Manning and Die Hardy ranges between 19 September and 25 October 2017. Eleven club members in five cars met up at Southern Cross to travel in convoy to the HAR where we spent two-and-a-half days and ...
Read more →The November meeting was also the AGM of KRMB. Minutes from the previous AGM were read. As all committee members were willing to continue in their roles there was no ballot. The Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer will continue in their present roles as will the committee members. The full committee ...
Read more →The NSB conducted its Annual General Meeting in place of a speaker for the last meeting of the year and then held a digital photo competition. Chairperson, Don Poynton reported: Attendance at meetings had fluctuated throughout the year between 13 and 27 with an aggregate of 235 compared with 302 ...
Read more →What a great night this was (Friday 8 December 2017). More than 80 people turned up to hear Simon Cherriman speak to the DRB about his research into the ecology of Wedge-tailed Eagles, and it was obvious from the start that this was no passing interest on the way to ...
Read more →The November meeting began with a short presentation on Arctic terns by Kevn Griffiths. These long-lived birds migrate from high latitudes of the Arctic regions to breed in Antarctica annually, travels that can account for more than two million kilometres over a lifetime that can be thirty years. The focus ...
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