The DRB Nats were delighted to welcome Tim Clifford, The Greens (WA) MLC for the East Metropolitan region, at our DRB Nats meeting on 11th October for our first ever night at Woodlupine Hall in Forrestfield. Tim presented the club with a sophisticated stereo-microscope and five hand lenses. These will ...
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Darling Range Branch
It’s three years since the DRB moved to Jorgensen Park Pavilion: a large, two storey and rambling building with squeaky floors and lots of character. At first, not all members wanted to move but we knew the Pavilion had won people’s hearts when someone announced it was ‘The Home of ...
Read more →August DRB Nats Excursion It is only be fitting to report that on our excursion to Wedgetail Reserve on August 25, we saw a Wedgetail Eagle (Aquila audax), along with 17 other birds, including Inland Thornbills (Acanthiza apicalis), White-browed Scrub-wrens (Sericornis frontalis), and Scarlet Robins (Petroica boodang). Forty-eight members and ...
Read more →The City of Melville hosted a three-hour bird workshop by the DRB on 7th September, and about 45 members and visitors attended. Prior to the workshop, two of us spent an hour doing a bird count at the workshop location: the AH Bracks Library on Canning Highway. The list was ...
Read more →AUGUST: Suzanne Thompson, an Environmental Officer at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, started her talk with a video taken downstream of the Canning Dam. It showed the various fish we have in the dams, remnant pools and streams of the Canning River and Helena valley areas. She explained ...
Read more →June Meeting Report. DRB Nats What an evening! The venue was packed to the rafters! One hundred and seventeen people attended with a record number of eighty four members, such was the popularity of the speakers and the topic.Our main presenters were horticulturist Mark Tucek, from Tucker Bush™ , and ...
Read more →June Excursion DRB Report Forty-three people joined the Carmel walk in Korung National Park in spite of the cold, wet winter weather on June 30th. It was a great event for seeing plants, flowers and fungi in such a small area, encircled by a track of around 2.5 km. We ...
Read more →Talk at the DRB Nats, July 2019 Starting with Sputnik and ending with Santa, we took a walk through the southern night sky. Our guide was Arthur Harvey, a volunteer at the Perth Observatory in Bickley*. Arthur’s interest in observing the night sky started with Sputnik in 1957 and so, ...
Read more →The Darling Range Branch have just won a $1000 grant from Bankwest in a community grants competition. They beat over 30 other community groups for the grant and thank everyone who voted for them. The BankWest community grant was specifically awarded to enable the DRB Nats to purchase better camera ...
Read more →Erika Roper treated a packed house to a well-illustrated, informative and entertaining talk on her study of Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos, work she is conducting for the degree of PhD at UWA. Much of the talk was focused on the spread of these cockatoos into Perth’s urban environments, where they ...
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