Although showers were forecast, the morning was beautifully warm and sunny, allowing about 30 members and visitors to enjoy a leisurely walk along the slope of the Darling Scarp above Lesmurdie Falls. Many people were surprised to see how many of the shrubs in the heath land were already in ...

They’re shy, secretive, seductive, endangered and very well camouflaged. That is the picture painted by Brenda Newby of the Western Ground Parrot. Numbers of this little, largely mottled green and yellow, ground parrot are estimated at around a mere 140 at present and being endemic to WA’s south eastern coast ...

 Vicky Laurie’s passion for the Kimberley became very evident as she introduced our audience to aspects of remote areas that a very few would get the chance to view – with the aid of a light plane and a helicopter! So much easier to spot new and rare flora and ...

On a fine, winter’s day in July 30 people met at Tomato Lake Kewdale. This included members of Kate’s regular Nature Walking Group. Although it is less than 2 km around the lake, the walk took us 2 hours because there was so much of interest. Originally this lake was ...

The long weekend of 4-6 June, 2011, found 13 DRB members along with Diana’s ‘3 girls’ camped at Lake Brown out of Nungarin, which is roughly 60 km north of Merredin. What a great spot – picturesque granite rocks which were honeycombed around the fringes near our c one large ...

Twenty two Naturalists met at the Hill Street entrance to the high, western portion of Kalamunda National Park on Sunday May 22nd, where they were spoilt by pre-walk scones, jam and cream kindly prepared by Judy and Andre du Plessis. A gentle circuit introduced participants to this section of the ...

Dr Mikael Siversson, Curator of Palaeontology at the WA Museum, was our guest speaker for the May meeting and presented a talk on the Australian megafauna. To set the scene Mikael began with an introduction to plate tectonics and briefly covered the geological mechanisms that create, destroy and drive the ...

Despite the low water, that exposed the shallow thrombolite edges of the lake, members and friends of DRB, had an exciting day at Lake Richmond, Rockingham on the 16th April. We assembled in the morning at the wonderful buildings of the Naragebup Regional Eco Centre at 10 a.m. for a ...

Michael Buzza’s “Museum of Natural History” in Guildford, is just that. From the metre long skull of an ICHTHYOSAURUS [found in Dorset, England in 1986], to a pair of Mammoth tusks, from a branch showing 20 differently coloured Budgerigars, to the rare pale form of the New Zealand Kiwi, the ...

On February 20th over thirty people gathered at Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre to see first hand how their operation works. This was a follow up to our first meeting of the year in which Zara Kiveli and Chris Phillips had explained the plight of Cockatoos and told us what ...