Berwick Wildlife Group

Present: Fiona Aungier, Leslie Cook, Molly Hardie, Malcolm Hutcheson, John Inglis, John Rae, Enid Turnbull.

Apologies:. M. Williams

Items	Subject	Decisions to Make	Outcome
1	Minutes of last meeting	Agreed?	Minutes of last meeting were agreed.
2	Matters arising not below	Discuss briefly.	.
3	Recent events.	Lichen/moss walk 21st Mar. Excellent.	Moss meeting excellent. Thank you, Janet.
4	Forthcoming events.	Border Events – still problems. Save our Squirrels Walk in Detchant, Sun. 19th April 1.30pm. BSBI Spring Conference, May 9th/10th/11th . Exhibition, talks, dinner Sat; outings Sun and Mon.	FA to try to sort out Border Events. Save our Squirrels walk and BSBI Spring Conference, arrangements in hand.
5	AGM, 13th May.	With talk by Kevin Rideout. Arrangements. Need Chairperson's and Treasurer's reports. Also need to give notice ?2 weeks in advance to members. Are you all willing to stand again for Committee? (I do hope so!)..	FA to contact Kevin Rideout re. talk after AGM. Chairperson and Treasurers reports – FA and ET. 2 wks notice required – FA e-mail (and post) notice to members. Change notice to one week at AGM (allows notice to go with preceding Newsletter). All present Committee and officers willing to stand again.
6	Summer programme.	Butterflies underway. Need to timetable: bats, bees, Whin Sill grass, Ord Drive trees, banded snails, reptiles and amphibians, etc. Also Holy Island "bioblitz", 12th/13th June. Please bring your diaries.	Dates of many events were discussed. FA to produce programme a.s.a.p.
7	Stevenson Bridge lighting scheme.	Have estimated carbon output and possible offset, and sent to Tim Kirton. Are we to do the bat surveys? See front page Advertiser.	No response from Tim Kirton re. carbon offset ideas. FA to e-mail (or write) to see if e-mail got lost during BCC/NCC changeover. Not clear if we are to survey bats – LC to contact Ruth Haddon.
8	Data.	Any further feedback/comments on sightings table in Review? Maps/data held by Berwick BC re Habitat Survey – Guy Rowland working for County Council, at least temporarily.	It was decided that using "International" English names for birds, etc. was very confusing. Therefore we will use normal British names on newsletter, columns for both on data sheets, alter to just International for EYE.
9	Purchases	Bat detector, tree tapes, GPS. Sorry, not bought yet.	Need to see if apparent fall in price of Batscan software on Alana site is genuine. If so, is it because better version due soon? Should we wait? As price of proposed GPS has risen from Alana, perhaps get from Amazon? FA & LC to check availability/prices/requirements.
10	SEPA - Solway-Tweed River Management Plan – Consultation.	Comments submitted.	Comments submitted.
11	Any other business	.	Marine Reserves. Newsletter to carry plea for members to contact MPs re. proposed Marine Bill. www.marinereservesnow.org.uk .
12	Date/venue of next Meeting	.	20th May, then 17th June (Castle). AGM 13th.May.