Planning is now underway for the 2023 Club Annual General Meeting, which will take place on Thursday 18th May at 7.00 p.m. at the Washington Wetland Centre, Barmston Lane, Pattinson, Washington NE38 8LE.
The documentation for the business part of the meeting will be added here over the next few weeks.and will be complete no later than 28 April, with most papers available well before that.
The meeting will include annual elections. It is vital for the future of the Club and the development of its activities that we should strengthen the Board of Trustees. At present several of the permitted twelve seats are vacant. A printable/downloadable form for nominations to the Board, to be received no later than Monday 24 April, can be found here.
Following the formal agenda there will be a quiz arranged by Club Trustee and Treasurer Mark Harper.
The title of Daniel's talk is Beached birds in Northeast England
By recording and studying birds washed onto our beaches we can learn more about the environment. The Northeast England Beached Bird Surveys Group began at the end of 2002 and has been running for twenty years. Dan is the Coordinator of the Group, which is involved in research into marine pollution and has an association with Newcastle University, the Natural History Society of Northumbria and Wageningen Marine Research (in the Netherlands) via the ‘Save the North Sea’ Fulmar Project.
This topic is becoming increasingly important with plastic getting ever more into our seas and of course Avian Flu. It may not be the most delightful of topics, but it is a critical one. I look forward to seeing as many as possible of you to this talk
The meeting will be held at Washington Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Pattinson, Washington NE38 8LE. Details directions are available at https://www.wwt.org.uk/.../plan-your-visit/directions/. It will start at 7.30 but the doors should be open from 7.00.
- DBC
- Feb 11, 2023
The DBC 2022 Yellowhammer Breeding Season Survey ran from March until the end of August, but very few records were received after the end of June (when the position was as mapped)
Some observers saved their records for “end-of-season” submission and significant data has recently come in. If you still have unsubmitted records for the Yellowhammer Survey there are several options for letting DBC have this
a) The DBC spreadsheet - https://www.durhambirdclub.org.uk/submit-records
b) The DBC Yellowhammer Survey smartphone app - https://www.durhambirdclub.org.uk/dbc-survey-yellowhammer
c) E-mail to durhambirdclub@gmail.com
