Presented at KRMB Meeting – 21 Sept 2020 The speaker for the September meeting was Colin Prickett who delivered a presentation on the results of the December 2019 Shorebird Count for the Peel-Yalgorup System (PYS) which forms Ramsar Site 482. The presentation was kindly provided by Sharon Meredith of the ...

AUGUST 2020 – KRMB FIELD TRIP The August field outing was to Bindoon and the Chittering Valley and our hosts for the weekend were Rosalie and Geoff Barritt who moved into a bush block at Bindoon about a year ago. Eight members made the trip up on the Saturday morning ...

Basic First Aid Tips for Bushwalkers with presenter Desiree Heald. Desiree opened her presentation by calling on the audience to participate in a brainstorming session. Drawing a circle containing the phrase ‘Before You Go’ on a whiteboard. Desiree asked audience members for suggestions of things to consider when planning a ...

Members Night KRM Branch – 20th July 2020 The theme for our July general meeting was a Members’ Night, with two members’ presentations. First up was Barbara Manson. Barbara is also a member of the Seabird Rescue Group and she shared with the meeting images of seabirds that had been ...

FIELD TRIP 21ST JUNE 2020 – MARRINUP CAMP SITE, DWELLINGUP With everyone keen to emerge from Covid enforced isolation, we had an excellent turnout of 32 attendees for our June field excursion. We were pleased to be joined by members of other branches as well as some visitors from the ...

Our June general meeting was an online meeting because of restrictions on gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The topic for the meeting was a presentation entitled ‘Insects and Fungi’ delivered by Daniel Heald (a KRMB Member). It was great to see so many people log on to the meeting, ...

Club member Mish Mann found a few interesting creatures to share with us on Facebook. To see all the photos, go to the Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch – WA Naturalists’ Club new Facebook group. She writes: “The spider is from my backyard. Daniel Heald kindly did an ID and it’s ...

MARCH KRMBranch A small group of seven members met for our March 22 outing. Erskine Lakes, situated in the suburb of Erskine in the City of Mandurah, is a reasonably large area of green open space containing two freshwater lakes. Situated close to the Peel-Harvey Estuary, these lakes are used ...

MARCH GENERAL MEETING –KRM BRANCH The guest speaker for our March meeting was Dr Terry Houston, Research Associate in the Department of Terrestrial Zoology (Entomology) at the WA Museum. Terry started his presentation by saying that many of the classical characterisations of Australia’s native bees have been subject to disruption ...