Our annual breakfast was again held at the Rockingham Golf Club.  The Club is next to the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park, Lake Cooloongup, which is looking very lush and healthy at the moment and kangaroos were grazing on the fairway. There were eighteen of us, including Ann and Otto Mueller ...

KRM Branch Meeting, 20 Jul 2012 The guest speaker for the July meeting was Dr. Nick Dunlop from the Conservation Council of Western Australia and the topic was Climate change responses in West Australian seabirds and microbats. It is generally accepted that climate change is occurring but what is not ...

The guest speaker for the June meeting was Dr. Brian Chambers from the University of Western Australia and the topic was Fauna Underpasses and the Brush-tailed Phascogale, a UWA Research Project. It has become common practice to install underpasses to help reconnect populations of fauna that have been fragmented by ...

The weekend started with the arrival of the first visitors, Margaret and Stan Telford, always the early birds.  People continued to come during the day and the last arrival turned up after dark.  The weather was very mixed with a lot of rain in the morning so some people cancelled.  ...

Our May meeting was a members’ night and we were pleased to have three visitors from the Main Branch come to visit us: John and Maureen Gardener and Margaret Larke. The evening started with a computer-projector problem so we had to make do with the laptop. Bob Goodale took the ...

        The May field trip was to Peel Zoo, located in Sanctuary Drive, Pinjarra (near the golf course). Eight members attended on a fine autumn morning. For most of us this was a first visit to this facility. Peel Zoo is a privately funded zoo and wildlife ...

Nine members turned up for the April field trip, a walk in Paganoni Reserve on a beautiful autumn morning. Paganoni Swamp Reserve is part of the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park and is a Bush Forever site. It is a large reserve, around 680ha, and has a number of different types ...

The speaker for the April meeting was Bob Goodale who kindly offered to share some photographs and experiences from a trip that he and Lynette made in January/February this year. They travelled from Perth to Tamworth and return over a period of around 8 weeks. During the trip they visited ...