Thirty-two DRB members came to a members-only event at the Greens’ Land-for-Wildlife and Streamcare property in the Perth Hills on August 26. They started with a wildflower quiz. Forty-nine Western Australian flowering plants, including five with significant conservation status, had been named and labelled in the property prior to people’s ...
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Peel Inlet from Murray-Serpentine delta— Photo:The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation The Naturalists Club has a cottage on Cooleenup Island on the eastern edge of the Murray River Delta Islands of the Peel Inlet. Club members erected the building in 1983 and it is still decorated in a charming ...
Read more →Our August meeting was an account given by Eddie Dell of the coach trip that he and Joy made in Costa Rica with Coates Wildlife Tours, where they were very efficiently guided by a local guide. The name of the country means “rich coast” and it covers an area of ...
Read more →A small group gathered for the August meeting. It commenced with Acting Chair Colin Prickett sharing the outcomes of the meeting of Branch Chairs that had taken place on the previous Saturday. Colin then had the pleasure of presenting the perpetual trophy for Naturalist of the Year to this year’s ...
Read more →Highly respected club member Jolanda Keeble gained plenty of experience while writing theses for her three degrees but as we learnt, researching, writing and publishing a book provided many new and different challenges. Jolanda admitted she was hooked on the flora of the northern Kwongan area from her first field ...
Read more →Eddy Wajon’s talk on re-establishing functional ecosystems at Chingarrup Sanctuary was an amazing story of bringing back to life a one-time farming plot. The sanctuary forms part of the Gondwana Link stretch of conservation land and was purchased fifteen years ago after the previous owner breached the conditions of the ...
Read more →Mick Davis from the City of Kalamunda showed us a new mobile app for use with the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). Called BioCollect, it enables us as citizen scientists to immediately upload photos and other records of living things to the online data bank of the Atlas. The ALA ...
Read more →DARLING RANGE BRANCH EXCURSION REPORT AUGUST: KELMSCOTT – TEACHING CHILDREN BIRDWATCHING Our nature survey and walk at Good Shepherd Primary school in Kelmscott in August was called off at the last minute owing to rain. However, instead, the Deputy Principal, Diane Newman, invited us to talk to the Year 6 ...
Read more →July 23 was a pretty wet and miserable day, but several young families and adults appeared regardless of the weather. We had just decided to go for a short walk collecting any plants, animals and plastic, when down came the rain. This happened 2-3 times so each time we scuttled ...
Read more →Due to several members being away, it was a small group of members that attended the anniversary breakfast at the Rockingham Golf Club. Those that did attend were served a hearty breakfast and enjoyed views out over the fairways towards the woodlands surrounding Lake Cooloongup. A pair of Wood Ducks ...
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