The guest speaker for the June meeting was Dr. Brian Chambers from the University of Western Australia and the topic was Fauna Underpasses and the Brush-tailed Phascogale, a UWA Research Project. It has become common practice to install underpasses to help reconnect populations of fauna that have been fragmented by ...
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The weekend started with the arrival of the first visitors, Margaret and Stan Telford, always the early birds. People continued to come during the day and the last arrival turned up after dark. The weather was very mixed with a lot of rain in the morning so some people cancelled. ...
Read more →We had fantastic turn-out for our Young Naturalists’ Fungi Foray in June, when over 30 children, along with parents and grandparents, spent a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon at Bold Park. Melissa Mykytiuk, from the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority (BGPA), who manage Perth’s two largest A-class reserves, Kings Park and ...
Read more →Our May meeting was a members’ night and we were pleased to have three visitors from the Main Branch come to visit us: John and Maureen Gardener and Margaret Larke. The evening started with a computer-projector problem so we had to make do with the laptop. Bob Goodale took the ...
Read more →The May field trip was to Peel Zoo, located in Sanctuary Drive, Pinjarra (near the golf course). Eight members attended on a fine autumn morning. For most of us this was a first visit to this facility. Peel Zoo is a privately funded zoo and wildlife ...
Read more →Dr Tony Friend from CALM and DEC presented us with a talk on small Western Australian mammals with particular emphasis on the plight of dibblers. Tony is the principal research scientist based in Albany and his brief covers several mammals, including potoroos and numbats as well as dibblers. Dibblers (Parantechinus ...
Read more →Twenty-seven naturalists enjoyed a beautiful warm and sunny Sunday morning on the short Weir View loop walk from the Perth Hills Centre at Mundaring Weir. Several welcome members from main club, including President Roz Hart, made the journey to the Hills in the hope of seeing some fungi. Unfortunately the ...
Read more →At the last AGM, the Council informed all members that membership fees had to increase due to increasing costs of running the Club, many of which were in line with the CPI. However, to increase our efficiency, to be able to include members’ photos in a colourful form and help ...
Read more →Nine members turned up for the April field trip, a walk in Paganoni Reserve on a beautiful autumn morning. Paganoni Swamp Reserve is part of the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park and is a Bush Forever site. It is a large reserve, around 680ha, and has a number of different types ...
Read more →The speaker for the April meeting was Bob Goodale who kindly offered to share some photographs and experiences from a trip that he and Lynette made in January/February this year. They travelled from Perth to Tamworth and return over a period of around 8 weeks. During the trip they visited ...
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