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 ...
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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 ...
Read more →The weather looked threatening but a group of six naturalists (including a new member) braved the forecast on July 15 and met at the Mount Observation picnic area. This is in the Wandoo National Park, some 80km east of Perth. After a cuppa (and a sprinkle of rain) we set off ...
Read more →Our July meeting was a talk given by Laura Skates, who is doing her PhD with research at UWA. Early work on carnivorous plants was carried out by Charles Darwin, who raised them in his own greenhouse and wrote a book about them. He said “Drosera is a wonderful plant ...
Read more →At our July meeting we had two presenters. The first was Chris Punter, who showed some photographs taken during the recent (May) camp stay at Cue (see report in the August newsletter.) There were a few photos of the areas visited during the stay, including two showing KRMB members on ...
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