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 ...

The topic for our June meeting was Fungi and Colin Prickett delivered a slide show depicting the diversity and beauty of the fungi that is to be found in the South-west of WA. The photos depicted a wide range of species found in various locations around Perth and the lower ...

The May excursion was a visit to the Academy of Taxidermy, which is also the home of the Museum of Natural History, in James St, Guildford. Nine members made the trip up and enjoyed a very sociable morning. The Museum has over 2000 taxidermy items on display, which enables visitors ...

The guest speaker for our May meeting was Kate Brown from the Department of Parks and Wildlife who presented a talk entitled “Restoration of native plant communities and critical habitat on Penguin Island and the reintroduction of a species that has disappeared from Penguin Island – Native Hollyhock (Malva preissiana)”. ...

The topic for the March meeting of KRMB was a presentation by Rosalie Barrett of photographs taken during a trip that she took with husband Geoff during September and October 2015 through the upper Mid West and Lower Murchison regions. The first part of the presentation showed wildflowers and flowering ...

Our planned excursion to Penguin Island in December 2015 had to be called off due to unseasonal rough weather conditions so it was decided to make it the destination for our first field trip of 2016. Nine members caught the 9am ferry across to Penguin Island where we were greeted ...

Our first KRMB meeting for 2016 was a members’ night, with two members presenting. First up was Chris Punter who presented a number of photographs taken during a visit to the Cocos Islands in 2015. He set the scene with an opening photograph of a tropical beach on Direction Island. ...

A very good turnout of 18 attended the KRMB Christmas Picnic Lunch on Sunday 13th December. All enjoyed the get together over lunch under the pergolas at the north western end of Lake Richmond. It was especially good to catch up with Ann and Otto Mueller, Stan and Margaret Telford ...

Our November excursion was a beach sweep at Shoalwater Bay, Rockingham. It was attended by eight members on a warm but windy morning. Along the footpath down to the beach a large patch of Scaevola crassifolia was in flower, attracting lots of Podalonia tydei suspiciosa Cutworm Wasps, native bees (Amegilla ...