Berwick Wildlife Group

Present: Fiona Aungier, Leslie Cook, Malcolm Hutcheson, John Inglis, John Rae, Enid Turnbull, M. Williams.

Apologies: Molly Hardie,

Items	Subject	Decisions to Make	Outcome
1	Minutes of last meeting	Agreed?	Agreed.
2	Matters arising not below	Discuss briefly.	None.
3	Recent events.	10th Dec. Big Cats – excellent talk, but small audience.	Excellent talk but small audience. Agreed not to hold talks in Dec. in future.
4	Berwick is Brilliant Event on 14th Jan.	Finalise plans. Invites, boards, displays, slide-show, food, etc.	Invites delivered by post and by hand completed. FA to collect boards from library Mon or Tues. Screen is at the hall and JR to collect AV equipment from FA Tuesday. FA has mincepies; ET to get nibbles. JR to get drinks. M Hutcheson has BTO photos. FA to get report on Wagtails. Copies of recent reports to be on display. Tables, mounting materials etc. all organised. Organisers to meet 6.00pm at hall.
5	Forthcoming events.	7th Feb – wader count. Run through organisation. 11th Feb – Ian Kille, "Putting Berwick on Geological Map", needs organising.	7th Feb – wader count. Arrangements as before. FA has maps. 11th Feb – Ian Kille, "Putting Berwick on Geological Map". FA to get projector.
6	Shoreline Management Plan.	See www.northumberland-smp2.org.uk Comments to be submitted by 31st Jan. Sorry, I havn't done anything on it yet.	See www.northumberland-smp2.org.uk Comments to be submitted by 31st Jan. Good quality report. FA & JR to compile response after detailed consideration.
7	Request from Steve Lowe for coastal bird count – N and S of Estuary.	Need further info. from Steve.	Interested in roost sites at high tide FA awaiting more detailed info. M Hutcheson wants to do Dodds Well to pier survey of bird movements monthly starting January and will suggest BTO take it over from next year. Excellent.
8	Estuary – e-mail from Shona Alexander	European approach to problem.	European approach to problem. SA working with European partners re. estuary management/development. BWG invited to take part and has accepted.
9	Lugworm digging Little Beach	Reply from Phil Davey.	Reply from Phil Davey stating commercial digging is against the law. BBC could pass a bye-law enforcing protection locally. Police should warn off commercial diggers. Andy Swinburn at Berwick Police Station is the person to contact.
10	B&NNC EMS mtg Eyemouth 25th Feb	Invite from Aisling Lannin. Good chance to pull all above together?	Invite from Aisling Lannin. Good chance to pull all above together. Will be talks followed by a coastal walk in the afternoon.
11	N. Gas Networks.	Need to have hand-over ceremony with NGN soon, so can get cash!	Hand-over ceremony with NGN soon. A photo opportunity showing use of bat detectors, tree measuring etc., to be arranged. FA.
12	Trees Tesco site.	Need to identify what they might usefully plant, and contact them.	M Hutcheson to identify what they might usefully plant, and produce report for them.
13	Cash to "tackle" neglected areas in town	Advertiser article. I expect this means "tidy them up"??	Advertiser article. FA to contact Sue Finch for more details. FA has e-mailed re. Old Coal Yard, but there is still no response.
14	Data – maybe delay discussion on this until next meeting?	We need to keep data in consistent form ourselves; form suited to EYE, SBBRC etc; possibly contribute to NBN?	We need to keep data in consistent form ourselves but one which is universally comprehensible. M Hardy and JR have ideas on this and FA to meet them to finalise details.
15	Any other business	.	JI to contact Richard Wales re. red squirrel sightings on Scottish side of Border.
16	Date/venue of next Meeting	Do we need one 21st Jan? Then 18th Feb, Castle Hotel, 7.00pm.	18th Feb, Castle Hotel, 7.00pm.