7:00pm, Wednesday 19 March 2025: APS Sutherland monthly meeting.

Birds and their habitats in the Royal National Park with Dave Robson

Dave Robson is an avid birder living in Bundeena and knows the Royal National Park well. He is secretary of Friends of Royal. He will share some of his remarkable photographs of local bird species found in the Royal National Park and talk about how the different vegetation types support different suites of birds. 

See some of these birds in a picture gallery at the Friends of the Royal web site:https://www.friendsofroyal.org.au/gallery/the-royal-birds-gallery/  

After the talk, we’ll have our plant table segment which showcases native plants in Shire gardens at this time of year. Bring along a specimen of your own and have it identified. For this month let’s try to emphasise Bush food plants you have growing in the Sutherland area. Feel free to accompany specimens by submitting photos for the newsletter.

Join us at our monthly meeting

Following the talk, we will have a raffle and supper.  

Join us  at 7:00pm.

Free – Visitors welcome. Gymea Community Hall, 39 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. 

Contact us: sutherland@austplants.com.au

7:00pm, Wednesday 16 April 2025: APS Sutherland monthly meeting.

Early years of the Royal National Park with John Arney

John Arney is the activities coordinator for our Sutherland APS Group, a committee member of Friends of Royal, a Bushcare volunteer in the Royal National Park, a Coastal Cabin Community  Landcare volunteer, a committee member of the Helensburgh and District Historical Society and a shack owner at Bulgo Beach.  In addition to an interest in native plants and a commitment to weed control in the Park, random contact with signs of historic occupations have stimulated within him an interest in the Park’s historic past.  

John will present to us on the circumstances that preceded the reservation of the “National Park” in 1879, with a little of the Park’s early history, including an incident that ended the political life of the “father” of the Park, Sir John Robertson.