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 ...

Bronwyn Ayre, a PhD candidate at UWA and BGPA (Kings Park), is studying the pollination of Red and Green Kangaroo Paws. Her talk covered many aspects of Kangaroo Paws and Catspaws, including a description of each one in WA, e.g.: Anigozanthos flavidus – Tall Kangaroo Paw Anigozanthos bicolor – Little Kangaroo Paw ...

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 ...

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 ...