DARLING RANGE BRANCH JULY EXCURSION REPORT. It was a record turnout for the DRB in the Glen Forrest Superblock on 29 July when seventy-nine (yes 79!) attended, including people of all ages and backgrounds. We visited the north-facing slope of the Nyaania Creek which was in full flow on its ...

August 2018 Meeting Darling Range Branch What an amazing night this was! No fewer than 107 people—a record for the DRB—turned up to hear Yvonne Sitko of the Western Australian Birds of Prey Centre give a presentation on raptors. This was no ordinary show. We put the data projector away and ...

The DRB’s natural history surveys of the bush block at Arbuthnot St, Kelmscott are continuing to prove popular. On June 23, sixteen of us went to the property for our fifth and next-to-last survey for the season of Makuru – Winter – June-July. We were finding so much we had ...

Our speaker Dr Nicole Willers gained her PhD studying Rock Wallabies and is an ecologist with the Parks and Wildlife Service (DBCA). She has worked for Parks and Wildlife since 2000 and has also worked for the United Nations Environment Program in Geneva, Switzerland. She has a strong interest in ...

Geoscientist Michael Freeman delivered a fascinating lecture on the story of the bedrock and the overlying regolith of our existence (that is, for those who live in the hills). The Darling Range region is an old, complicated landscape, which in places is not fully understood or agreed upon and the ...

Darling Range Branch Kulin, in the Eastern Wheatbelt, approximately 280 km from Perth, was home to twenty-four eager DRB Naturalists and visitors over the June Western Australia Day long weekend. The rich flora and fauna in the region had us entranced.    We started on Friday with bird walks and ...

Darling Range Branch Eighteen enthusiastic naturalists joined the fourth survey of the bush block at Arbuthnot St, Kelmscott in April 2018. The visitors included two local families and the Deputy Principal of the nearby school, which was encouraging. This bush is where the scarp and flats intersect. We are surveying ...

Darling Range Branch Our guest speaker for the night, Johnny Prefumo, drove all the way up from Bunbury to give a packed Jorgensen Park Pavilion a first-rate talk on frogs for our April DRB meeting. Everyone loved it! This was far more than a survey of batrachian taxonomy in the ...

Blackadder Creek Reserve is a small nature reserve of about a dozen hectares—much longer than it is wide—that straddles the winter-wet Blackadder Creek in Stratton in the City of Swan. Its major axis is east-west and it forms a contiguous extension of the much larger Talbot Road Reserve to the ...