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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Amy Griffiths delighted us all with an entertaining and informative presentation on reptiles at the DRB Nats in April. Amy has a Bachelor of Biological Sciences, and licences to display wildlife for educational purposes and relocate reptiles. She grew up attending the DRB Nats and is the grand-daughter of Kevn ...

DRB Nats excursion We had a ball. Thirty-seven DRB members and visitors took over the Myalup Pines Cottages for an unofficial long weekend beginning on Anzac Day. The accommodation was excellent and the resulting camaraderie was wonderful. We began the weekend with a nature inspired art exhibition courtesy of Andrew ...