The GOLLY Walk on June 28th was our first in the Star Swamp Bushland, despite our monthly meeting place (the Henderson Environment Centre) being located at its entrance. Star Swamp Bushland is a 96 hectare Class-A reserve comprising four hectares of semi-permanent freshwater lake with paperbark trees and 92 hectares ...
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The recent Queens Birthday Honours list included two Club members: Penny Hussey and Kim Sarti. We offer them both our congratulations. Details as follows: Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia Ms Bridgit Mary Hussey For significant service to conservation and land management practices in Western ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH EXCURSION REPORT GOLLY WALK: I remember visiting the Channel 7 studios for Telethon thirty years ago. How the site has changed! Today the site is being developed as a new housing estate but fortunately, like our GOLLY walkers in May, the residents will be able to explore ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS MAY MEETING REPORT The first scientific report on Broome’s dinosaur footprints was published in our club’s journal in 1952, (The Western Australian Naturalist, Vol. 3, p82-83). Mr Ludwig Glauert, Director of the WA Museum, reported the discovery by Walter Jones of Broome in 1945 of large impressions “shaped ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH April Golly Walk Report City skyline from northern shore of the lake (T Marwood) A perfect windless autumn morning, 24 bird species, some interesting invertebrates and an amphibian made our April GOLLY walk around the northern end of Herdsman Lake an enjoyable and rewarding excursion. Fifteen people ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS April Meeting Report Amellia (Milly) Formby is a passionate shorebird conservationist with many and varied strings to her bow. She started academic life with a Visual Arts degree from Monash University and worked as a professional tapestry weaver at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in South Melbourne for seven ...
Read more →March 2017 GOLLY WALK “GOLLY, we must be mad!” Although conditions and visibility were far from perfect five brave members jumped into the water at Mettam’s Pool on March 22 to conclude our beachcombing and planned snorkelling event. Their exit was almost as fast as their entry! Our preceding walk ...
Read more →MARCH Meeting 2017 Mike Freeman from the WA Department of Mines and Petroleum displayed his passion for geoscience education when he enlightened us about six of recognised impact structures in Western Australia. 15 of Australia’s 33 confirmed and probable impact structures are located in WA. Of these, only four are ...
Read more →Speaker David Knowles from ‘Spineless Wonders’ grabbed our attention immediately by questioning whether, as naturalists, we needed to recalibrate how we think about our local fauna. We spend a disproportionately large amount of time looking at mammals and birds, which only make up just over one percent of Western Australia’s ...
Read more →Members of the club were shocked to learn of the sudden death of Frank Walker while canoeing at Matilda Bay on 31 January, just a couple of days after attending the NSB’s social barbecue. Frank and his wife Jan joined the club in July 2015 soon after their arrival from ...
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