Northern Suburbs Branch November 2020 Our speaker, Dr Kenny Travouillon, has been the Curator of Mammalogy at the WA Museum since 2015. Having studied the 10 to 24 million year old fossil remains of bandicoots found at Riversleigh, Queensland for his PhD, it was only natural for him to take ...

NS Branch Saturday, 26 Sept 2020 As it was our first attempt at a bio-blitz, the event must be considered a success with 56 people, including quite a few children, signing in. I know a few who attended forgot to sign, so the total was probably nearer 60. The Great ...

30 YEARS OF BUSHWALKS IN OUR LAST WILDERNESS NS Branch September 2020 Mike Donaldson, geologist, photographer and publisher, has journeyed to the Kimberley so many times over the last 30 years that he has lost count. At least once every year he sets off with a small band of friends ...

A talk presented to the Northern Suburbs Branch AUGUST 2020 by PROFESSOR PETER VETH (UWA) As an introduction, Pete briefly reviewed the two postulated options for migration into Australia – via Sulawesi and New Guinea (the northern route), or across the Sahul Shelf from Timor (the southern route) – keeping ...

NS Branch Golly Walk – June 2020 It was great to be able to recommence our monthly Golly Walks with a bracing walk at Ocean Reef that was good for our physical and mental well-being. The downside was, we were there to view the bushland and limestone cliffs that are ...

26 AUGUST 2020 An excellent turnout of 15 members and three visitors, who found us on Meetup, were greeted by Christine, Chris and Danielle from the Friends of Inglewood Triangle. Danielle explained how the triangle of bush was saved by accident when the Mt Lawley Golf Club who owned the ...

The Northern Suburbs Branch used the occasion of its annual January Barbecue and Social event to unveil a memorial to life member, Alex Saar, who passed away in March 2019. Alex joined the Club’s Young Nats in the early-mid 1950s and after graduating to adult membership in 1959, remained a ...

The Northern Suburbs Branch held its AGM on the 18th December. Prior to the AGM Don Poynton (Branch Chairperson) donned a Santa Claus hat and conducted a short quiz based on the scientific or common names of WA flora and fauna that were in some way related to Christmas. The ...

October GOLLY Walk ‘Two for the price of one’ Due to a ‘senior’s moment’ I planned our Golly Walk in Thaxter Park, Landsdale a month too early! Consequently, the mass showing of Christmas Morrison (Verticordia nitens) was nowhere to be seen. Nevertheless, our short walk through the park did reveal ...