Our May meeting was a Members’ Night. The first presenter was Bob Goodale. Bob and Lynette had recently returned from a trip to Botswana and Bob brought along a number of photographs taken during that trip. These covered a wide range of Africa’s wildlife and included shots of birds, iconic ...

KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH APRIL MEETING REPORT At the April meeting we viewed the documentary Houtman Abrolhos Islands—Wilderness Regained, which was produced by Bob and Ann Goodale in the early 1980s. For many of the audience this was the first time they had seen the film. Bob Goodale gave a brief introduction: ...

MARCH Excursion 2017 Our field outing on March 26 was a walk along the shore at the Point Peron Reserve in Rockingham. Not put off by a very windy, cool morning, certainly not the best of conditions for a walk around this coastal reserve, nine members plus one visitor (Brian) ...

MARCH Meeting 2017 A large audience of members and visitors turned out for our March meeting to listen to guest speaker Delphine Chabanne, a PhD Candidate at Murdoch University’s Cetacean Research Unit (MUCRU), who presented a talk on her PhD project. Delphine is conducting a comprehensive investigation into the ecology ...

Nine members of KRMB plus Lou Scampoli from the Main Club attended the excursion on February 26 to the Coodanup foreshore and Creery Wetlands within the Peel-Harvey Estuary. These locations are part of the extensive Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar Site and are an important feeding area for migratory shorebirds that depart their ...

Bob Goodale was the first presenter, showing a number of photographs that he had taken at Goodale Sanctuary over the summer. First up were photographs of Western Grey Kangaroos on the edge of the main lake. This was followed by a photo of a Swamp Harrier taking a drink on ...

The guest speaker for our August meeting was Margaret Larke and the topic was Kings Park. Margaret’s presentation took us through the history of Kings Park starting with its Indigenous Heritage, which dates back some 50,000 years. The land that now makes up the park was an important meeting and ...

  The topic for our July meeting was a presentation of the results of the Shorebirds 2020 Count for the Peel Yalgorup Ramsar System. The presenter was Bob Patterson, the coordinator of the Mandurah Bird Observers Group, the Peel branch of Birdlife WA. Shorebirds 2020 is a program underway at ...

The June excursion was a Fungi walk in Paganoni Reserve, Karnup. Seven members and eight visitors attended the walk. It was especially pleasing to have so many visitors attend, having learned about the walk via the Internet. Our walk commenced at the main entrance off Paganoni Road and we headed ...