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 ...
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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 ...
Read more →To emphasise a shift in focus from nudibranchs to the myriad other members of the phylum Mollusca, our November guest speaker, Lisa Kirkendale, Curator of Molluscs at the WA Museum (WAM), rearranged her talk to be Other WA molluscs and nudibranchs. By doing so, Lisa was able to cover subtopics ...
Read more →NSB July 2016 Golly Walk What I advertised as a 45-minute walk on July 27 ended up taking more than double that time, as we found numerous things to look at. Before the walk began Ann Clarke, co-ordinator of the Friends of Carnaby Reserve, outlined how community-led changes to the positioning ...
Read more →NSB Visit to Battye Library, 20 July 2016 The following are the notes provided by Steve Howell, Senior Subject Specialist at the Battye Library. Botanical Material Relating to WA William Dampier William Dampier (1651–1715) was an English navigator, explorer, privateer and writer. He had numerous swashbuckling adventures around Central and ...
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