The rarities sub-committee have reviewed the records for 2017 and have discovered that there were many records from both category 1 and category 2 which have simply not been submitted. The excel spreadsheet HERE outlines the species that we require description for. The rarities sub-committee aim to maintain a high standard of accuracy of what species have occurred in Durham and when. Please consult the excel document attached and if you were a finder or observer of any of the

NEW YEAR NEWSLETTER Dear Member Following on from our End of Year Newsletter last month, we sent this by email but did not catch all of our members. For some we do not have an email address and for others, obviously not a correct one as the emails bounced back So we are sending this Newsletter by email and, to catch all of our members, by post. However we won’t be able to afford to send them out by post all the time, not just money but the time taken to put them in envelopes