March 2017 GOLLY WALK “GOLLY, we must be mad!” Although conditions and visibility were far from perfect five brave members jumped into the water at Mettam’s Pool on March 22 to conclude our beachcombing and planned snorkelling event. Their exit was almost as fast as their entry! Our preceding walk ...
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Excursion March 2017 Thirteen members plus one visitor arrived at Faye Arcaro‘s four acre property “Botanic Obsession” in Jandakot on March 18 hoping to see lots of insect activity, especially native bees. Unfortunately the day was overcast and grey and activity was at a minimum. But Faye’s enthusiasm more than ...
Read more →MARCH Meeting 2017 A large audience of members and visitors turned out for our March meeting to listen to guest speaker Delphine Chabanne, a PhD Candidate at Murdoch University’s Cetacean Research Unit (MUCRU), who presented a talk on her PhD project. Delphine is conducting a comprehensive investigation into the ecology ...
Read more →MARCH Meeting 2017 Mike Freeman from the WA Department of Mines and Petroleum displayed his passion for geoscience education when he enlightened us about six of recognised impact structures in Western Australia. 15 of Australia’s 33 confirmed and probable impact structures are located in WA. Of these, only four are ...
Read more →MARCH Meeting 2017 Branch President, Mike Green, presented an illustrated talk on kangaroos in their garden, continuing a theme of focussing this year’s DRB talks on natural history in the Hills area. Kangaroos are herbivores that are native to Australia and its neighbouring islands. They are marsupial mammals of the ...
Read more →APRIL Meeting 2017 Dr Ben Miller, fire ecologist and Director of Science at Kings Park, has worked in areas such as fire ecology, restoration ecology, rare plant conservation and ecosystem management. Ben’s talk looked into the role that fire ecology plays in the management of bushland in Kings Park. Most ...
Read more →Updated version now available The local fungi guidebook Fungi of the Perth Region and Beyond was last published in 2009 by the WA Naturalists’ Club and has since been freely available on-line on the club’s website. Now a 2017 revised version can be viewed and/or downloaded at the same website ...
Read more →This book is an excellent field guide for those looking at our plants in the South West (Noongar country) who are curious to know how useful they were to Aboriginal and other Australians. Vivienne Hansen speaks from an Aboriginal perspective and links in with the larger Australian community. This link ...
Read more →Nine members of KRMB plus Lou Scampoli from the Main Club attended the excursion on February 26 to the Coodanup foreshore and Creery Wetlands within the Peel-Harvey Estuary. These locations are part of the extensive Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar Site and are an important feeding area for migratory shorebirds that depart their ...
Read more →Eddie Dell was the first speaker at our initial meeting for 2017. He spoke about the birds on his Sawyers Valley property, where he has identified 38 species. He brought in a New Holland Honeyeater’s nest—a tiny one—from which two young birds had hatched and later flew off to a ...
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