Northern Suburbs Branch 23 November 2022 A group of seven explored the natural history of the coastal dunes alongside Challenger Parade, City Beach. Weather conditions (fresh breeze, Beaufort scale 5) were not ideal for recording bird species. We failed to see or hear any fairy-wrens. Nevertheless, we recorded seventeen land ...

Northern Suburbs Branch 21 December 2022 As usual, there was no speaker at the December Meeting of the Northern Suburbs Branch. Instead, the Annual General Meeting was held in between a Christmas-themed Quiz and our End-of-Year Photo Competition. Office Bearers for 2023 are: During his, This Month Naturally segment, Don ...

Northern Suburbs Branch 26 October 2022 GOLLY walk Fourteen members and visitors joined us on a bright sunny morning for our Kulbardi Walk through a lesser-visited part of Bold Park behind the Bold Park Aquatic Centre. The Kulbardi Walk is part of the Whadjuk Trail Network that links remnant bushland ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 19 October 2022 Our theme for the year, Anything Marine, finally got back on track in October when we were privileged to have Monique Barker and Talitha Wolfe from Save Our Marine Life come along to talk about marine parks in general and the proposed review and expansion of the ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 23 September 2022 Our visit to the Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist at the Wanneroo Art Gallery on 23 September was made exceptionally enjoyable by the introduction and guided tour by the dynamic creator of the exhibition, Susie Vickery. Everyone present was bowled over by her talent, ...

Northern Suburbs Branch, 28 September 2022 After the “Peregrination” excursion five days earlier, a much smaller group attended the Dinosaurs of Patagonia Exhibition at the WA Museum. This time we were left to wander on our own, watch the videos and read about the herbivores and carnivores from the Cretaceous, ...

Northern Suburbs Branch Golly Walk: 27th July 2022 If every school had adjacent bushland and dedicated teachers like Coolbinia Primary School, we probably wouldn’t have to be so concerned about finding our next generation of Nats members. School Ambassadors Hudson and Luke greeted the eight members who came along. They ...

Northern Suburbs Branch 22ndJune 2022 The chilly 8:00 am start the morning after the winter solstice did not stop eleven members and a WA Natural History Lovers visitor from joining Friends of Koondoola Bushland convenor, Jennie Villiers, and City of Wanneroo Conservation Officer, Sasha Poli, for a very interesting walk ...

Northern Suburbs Branch 15th June 2022 When our scheduled speaker for June was unavailable, we invited Jennie Villiers, Convenor- Friends of Koondoola Bushland, to speak to us about the history and biodiversity of Koondoola Regional Bushland. This proved to be a very fortunate choice as Jennie offered to take us ...

By the time we turned around at the Woodbridge boat ramp, seven kilometres upstream from Guilderton, we had passed probably the best stands of Tuart in the State, large expanses of Swamp Paperbark, a hillside of Allocasuarina sp., possibly cumulus and closer to the river, three species of banksia, B. menziesii, B. littoralis and B. attenuata.