DRBNats August 2021 A talk by Dr Jane Chambers, Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University. As I view the suburbs I feel increasing dismay at the loss of tree canopy, the gardens with plastic lawns and the lack of native vegetation or indeed, any vegetation. I was relieved therefore, to ...

DRB Nats 22nd MAY 2021 This excursion was postponed from earlier in the year due to the COVID Lockdown. However, 8 adults and 3 children attended, all Club members. The site has a well-defined path around the perimeter and a map on the Turner Road entrance is a good facsimile ...

DRBNats Excursion 18th Oct 2020 A small group of 6 members and guests met, taking acceptable COVID 19 safety precautions, for our excursion. Several members of KRM Branch were also members of the Wildflower Society which greatly assisted with Family order identification. Indeed, we were only one step out of ...

DRBNats Excursion 27th September 2020 A small group of 7 DRB members met, taking suitable Covid 19 safe precautions, for our return to excursions. We also had six adult and one child visitor, coming from west and north side of City. Wildflower identification book and a walk trail map was ...

DRB Nats Meeting March 2020 Well what a fabulous talk we were given for the second meeting of the year for DRB Nats club. Michael Byrne from CPD tree services came to speak to us about ‘caring for trees in an urban forest’. What a treat! Michael is a qualified ...

DRB FEBRUARY 2020 Meeting The first talk of 2020 for the Darling Range Branch was kicked off by an extremely talented family of photographers, Paul and Joshua Irvine. Paul Irvine is a macro-photographer who loves nothing better than to explore the great outdoors on the lookout for species of arachnids ...

DRBNats Georgina Steytler is one of Australia’s top bird photographers and has won many awards. It was clear from the photographs that she showed us why, as they were stunning. She took us beyond the simple reporting of birds to the artistic highlighting of their features and her teaching techniques ...

Dr Tony Start’s talk was the second of our annual DRB Elders’ talks. These aim to preserve the knowledge of our long-standing members. Tony had especially digitised his photographs and slides using the DRB Nats scanner, (kindly donated by Matthew Hughes, MLA). Tony is a highly regarded natural history expert. ...

Thirty Darling Range Branch members visited the areas around Kulin, Kondinin and Corrigin for four days in mid-October. Led by the energetic Kulin wildflower expert, Robin Campbell, we visited an impressive variety of places. Specific areas, such as the Corrigin Rifle Range, were ablaze with wildflowers including seven varieties of ...

DRB November Meeting Members of the Darling Range Branch and visitors were given a treat at the November meeting when 10-year old Poppy Greenacre gave the “Kids’ talk”. The Kids’ talk has been on our program for two years and involves our younger members giving a 5-minute talk on an ...