Northern Suburbs Branch FebruaryAll photos D Poynton unless credited otherwise Rather than pick a single venue, the hosts of the 2018 ANN Get-together chose to showcase the variation in natural history found in south-western Victoria by using three locations for accommodation. This meant most interstate participants who were not self-driving ...

November NS Branch Meeting Report Club members and presenters Andrew Cummings and Ben Schneider have travelled thousands of kilometres around the state collecting land snails; many are new species which will take years to describe. Andrew informed us that there are an estimated 2500 – 3000 native species in Australia. These make ...

NS BRANCH Excursion Report Our November GOLLY Walks—the last of the year—are always along the coast, usually combining a mix of paths and beaches. This year we started from last year’s finishing point, Hillarys Marina, and walked approximately 3km south to the old Department of Fisheries laboratories at Watermans. Prior ...

The Northern Suburbs Branch held its AGM on the 19th December. Prior to the AGM, branch Chairperson Don Poynton gave a brief presentation on Christmas Spiders (Austracantha minax), which are endemic to Australia. They are the only members of their genus and belong to the orb-weaving family Araneidae. For some ...

Northern Suburbs Branch October ExcursionAll Photos: D Poynton unless shown otherwise The NSB’s visit to the WA Reptile Park at Henley Brook was arranged as a follow up to Gane Doyle Jnr’s very entertaining presentation, Reptiles, Up Close, at the branch’s July meeting. So it was very disappointing to have ...

Northern Suburbs Branch¦November Meeting Our guest speaker, Melanie (Mel) Turner is Dive Co-ordinator for the WA Underwater Explorers’ Club. She dives at least twice a week, including regularly in the Swan River at night. Mel first experienced the wonders of night diving about 10 years ago while holidaying in Bali. ...

NS Branch September 2018 Meeting Pearls have fascinated people for thousands of years, no more so than at our September meeting when members and visitors were still glued to the words of our guest speaker, Michael Seifert-Weiss after one and a half hours. Michael’s presentation covered a wide range of ...

NS Branch September 2018 Despite Trigg Bushland Reserve being one of the best known natural areas in the northern suburbs, only a handful of our 19 GOLLY walkers had previously visited the section north of Karrinyup Road. While the section on the south side of the road is dominated by ...

NSB August Golly Walk Planning Golly walks to see orchids at their best is not easy when the dates have to be set almost a year ahead. And so it turned out for our visit to St Michaels Park in Connolly. By the third week of August in 2017 there ...

NSB August Meeting Report Radio-tracking is used for real-time survivorship and movement monitoring of translocated animals. Photo: Saul Cowen Kelly Rayner, who spoke to us in August, is a member of the Department of Biodiversity Conservation & Attraction (DBCA) translocation team working towards reintroducing native mammals to Dirk Hartog Island, ...