There was a surprise on our DRB excursion on 20th October to the Alan Anderson walk-trail in Walliston. We stumbled across a cleared area which had become absolutely full of wildflowers. There were so many flowers that we failed to identify or log them all; we gasped at the abundance. ...
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A good turnout of 10 members met at the car park at the southern end of Lake Claremont on 24th October 2017, a partly cloudy but pleasant morning. After a brief introduction to the lake from Bob Goodale we set out along the walking path on the south-eastern side ...
Read more →Our speaker—club member Kirsten Tullis—commenced work at the WA Museum as a volunteer preparing bird specimens in 1981. Today, as the Museum’s Senior Preparator (Exhibition and Design Department), her job embraces not only taxidermy, but moulding, casting and biological model-making as well as assisting with the preparation and installation of ...
Read more →The Fungi book presentation at the Main October meeting was the final step in a very special project that we can all be very proud of. Our Club enabled this project, which would never have happened without its involvement. The WA Naturalists’ Club, with partners like the UBC, has taken ...
Read more →In October the main branch was lucky to get Greg and Bronwen Keighery along to talk about WA wildflowers, the focus of their working lives since the 1970s. Greg has worked as a scientist for Kings Park and WA government (CALM, then DPaW, and now DBCA i.e. Dept. Biodiversity, Conservation ...
Read more →‘Fungi-gals’ Sapphire Mc Mullen and Roz Hart are arranging to print a special order of gorgeous mycologically-themed clothing in collaboration with a high quality supplier of batik. As those of you who purchased the fungi shirts initially conceived for the 2011 Fungimap conference are well aware, these cotton clothes are ...
Read more →John Cann & Ross Sadlier, CSIRO Publishing, 2017; RRP A$150 This is a large, handsome hardback book detailing this country’s freshwater turtles and also containing some information and photographs of New Guinea’s turtles. Each genus of turtle has its own section, with three or four pages of information on that ...
Read more →Hort’s Duck Orchid, C. Prickett On a morning that started out mainly sunny with a threat of showers later, seven members joined hosts Bob and Lynette Goodale for our September 24 visit to Goodale Sanctuary. We commenced with a walk to the main lake, which had water levels as ...
Read more →Shepherds Bush Reserve is a 16.5ha Bush Forever heritage reserve in Kingsley, which the City of Joondalup has recently upgraded with new paths and signage. We were fortunate to have the co-ordinator of the recently formed Friends of Shepherds Bush, Elizabeth Griffin, lead 12 members, three visitors and three children ...
Read more →It was a cloudy, damp day as eleven of us set off on October 7 with the Deputy Principal of Good Shepherd School, to do the first survey of their 12-acre bush block in Arbuthnot St, Kelmscott. The DRB has committed to doing a survey every two months until the ...
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