DRBNats 9 December 2022 Ask people what their favourite Australian bird is, and many will answer “the maggie”, the Australian Magpie. Indeed, even those who profess no interest in birds can almost always name this one. But for all their ubiquitous popularity, there’s a lot we don’t know about them, ...

 DRB Nats 21 -23 October 2022 This intergenerational weekend offered the 19 participants a variety of opportunities to see the Dryandra woodland featuring the largest remnant of native vegetation in the western Wheatbelt. It’s a valuable and diverse conservation area. Well-signed walking trails guided us through magnificent open eucalypt woodland. The tall, white-barked wandoo and the mallet trees are impressive. ...

DRB Nats 12th August 2022 The guest speaker for the August Meeting was Mick Davies, a well-known local conservationist and leader talking about his encounter with Phascogales. A proven environmental project manager and communicator, he uses his extensive ecological knowledge, excellent project management skills and proven community engagement experience to ...

DRBNats, 21st May 2022 This meandering walk trail in the magnificent Ellis Brook Valley is just off the Tonkin Highway, 15 km from Gosnells. We saw a variety of orchids and landscape trees generic to the area. Eucalyptus wandoo and Acacia dentifera were in abundance (not yet flowering). We walked ...

A report on the first walk in the Notley Late Easter excursion series for 2022. There were no signs of the recent rain having left any puddles, and the pool was completely dry.

DRB Nats 11 February 2022 Simon Cherriman is well known for his in-depth knowledge, understanding and devotion to Wedgetail Eagles. However, at the DRB, we discovered he also knows an enormous amount about the importance of tree hollows and is currently finishing a book on the subject. picture courtesy Echo ...

DRB Nats excursion 28th August 2021 A guided tour around significant rehabilitation sites in Jorgensen Park demonstrated the very impressive results that can be achieved by a lot of hard work, high levels of local knowledge and a group of dedicated volunteers assisted by a highly experienced and passionate local ...

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 ...