December 2020 It was good to have a total of 18 members attend the KRMB Xmas BBQ at Naragebup. It was especially pleasing to get together with some members that we do not see very often, as they are no longer able to participate actively in KRMB Meetings or outings. ...
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6 December 2020 Our annual outing to Penguin Island during December, peak nesting season for Crested and Bridled Terns, has become a tradition. However, on this occasion, only a small group of five attendees met at the kiosk to get tickets for the first ferry over to the island. We ...
Read more →22 NOVEMBER 2020 Our November field trip was to Hamel Eco-Park, a small reserve near Waroona, which attracted an excellent turnout of 19 attendees. Our guide for the day was Heather Adamson. Situated on Burney Road in Hamel, the Hamel Eco-Park was originally known as the Hamel Nursery. Between 1925 ...
Read more →KRM Branch 25 Oct 2020 A good turn out of 11 members attended the October field excursion to the Spectacles Nature Reserve, Kwinana. The Spectacles is a 360ha reserve that is part of the Beeliar Regional Park system. Consisting of Banksia woodland and a central wetland fringed with Freshwater Paperbarks ...
Read more →The theme for this meeting was a Members’ Night. The first presenter was a new member, Malcolm Roberts, who showed a slide show featuring some photographs of a trip to Karijini NP, on which he was a guide. The photographs highlighted the spectacular scenery to be found in the many ...
Read more →Pied Cormorant attempting to swallow a large fish. Image: Colin Prickett KRM Branch 26-29 Sept 2020 Our field outing for September was a long weekend stay at Yallingup, with 11 attendees. Our base was to be a house on a large block that we had rented for the weekend. As ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
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