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 ...

MARCH: WESTERN SHIELD PROJECT Globally unique and one of the largest threat abatement programs in the world, the Western Shield program aims to halt the decline of Western Australia’s native fauna. Such is the task of zoologist Dr Michelle Drew from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) who ...

Twenty students from Year Six and two teachers, from Good Shepherd Primary school in Kelmscott, were taken on a nature walk around their property by an expert group of DRB members. Joff Start and Mike Green took half of the group bird watching and the other half were led by ...

Thanks to the Shire of Mundaring, members of the DRB attended a free, three-hour workshop in November on understanding the birds in their garden. It was presented by DRB Chairperson Rachel Green, and Mike Green (DRB Treasurer and bird enthusiast.) Seventy-two people attended and it fostered a love and knowledge ...

  The Twin Creeks conservation area, run by the Friends of the Porongurup Ranges, is a stunning area of rich and rare flora and fauna. Thirty-three members of the Darling Range Branch visited it on the September long weekend last year and were bowled over by the number and diversity ...