At the April meeting our guest presenter was Bill van der Pyl who showed us a selection of his bird photographs. Bill has lived in the Kwinana Rockingham area all his life having been born in Medina and lived in Baldivis and now Waikiki. Bill has a love of nature ...

At the March meeting our guest speaker was Peter Wilmot and his topic was “Lake Mealup on the road to recovery: an adaptive management approach to acid sulphate soils and typha invasion”. The presentation was co-authored by Heidi Bucktin of the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) and was first ...

As a follow up to the presentation at the March general meeting, on Sunday 17th March ten KRMB members joined Peter Wilmot for a visit to Lake Mealup to view the results of the recovery project. For many of us this was our first visit to Lake Mealup so we had ...

Kwinana/Rockingham/Mandurah Branch Field trip to Tern Island On Sunday 17th February at 8am ten KRMB members gathered in the car park next to the yacht club, where the Safety Bay jetty used to be, for the February field trip, a beach walk at Tern Island nature reserve at Safety Bay. This nature ...

 Kwinana/Rockingham/Mandurah Branch The February meeting saw 13 members turn up for our first meeting of the year – a Members’ night. There were three presentations of photographs from trips made by various members to the Mid West, Gascoyne and Pilbara regions. First up were Bert and Ailsa Rabone who showed ...

Around 25 members, past KRMB members and visitors from other branches attended our Christmas get together for a BBQ lunch at Lake Richmond. It was good to once again meet up with Anne and Otto Mueller, Peter Wilmott, Roz Hart and Margaret Larke. Prior to settling down for lunch a ...

Field Trip 9th December 2012 to Penguin Island Six members met on a warm morning to catch the ferry over to Penguin Island. Our visit was timed to coincide with the annual influx of nesting Crested Terns and Bridled Terns. The Bridled Terns are present in large numbers on the ...

  Excursion Sunday 18th November 2012 to Rockingham Lakes Regional Park Lake Coolingup Nine of us met at 9:00am to walk some of the perimeter track.  Lake Coolingup is Aboriginal for The Place of the Children and nearby is the Children’s Forest. On Easter Sunday in 2009 there was an ...

Katinka works in Paganoni, Ludlow Forest and Yalgorup National Park on the methods of management and restoration of Tuart woodland ecosystems. Tuart woodlands are limited to coastal areas in the south west and have been considerably fragmented by clearing for agricultural land and suburban development. As well as these threats ...

The meeting began late as there were problems with the connection to the projector and so the group huddled together around the computer screen to see the presentations. Proceedings began by welcoming Bert Rabone back after a sudden, serious illness and he is now back on form. Sightings included a ...