Heritage Map and Slideshow updated

We have been updating the interactive map and heritage slideshow.

... posted by Stephen Addinall, Mark Newsome

Request for HLF promotional materials

I have this morning sent off a request to HLF for their promotional material e.g. banners T shirts badges etc bearing the HLF logo to illustrate their support of BDHP for use in the events of 2011.

... posted by Paul Anderson

Finding the finders

Chris Bell is trying to find every "finder" of the first record of 119 bird species new to County Durham since Temperley.

... posted by Paul Anderson

BDHP web presence

Stephen Addinall has updated the BDHP section of the DBC website.

... posted by Stephen Addinall

Meeting at Rainton Meadows

Representatives of DWT, TBC, DBC and NHBS met with Keith Bowey at Rainton Meadows - the program of events is now close to being finalised.

... posted by Paul Anderson

"Collector and Shooter" records

Dave Raw has been doing some detailed  investigations into a cluster of rare bird sightings from the mid-nineteenth century, which occurred in, or related to some observers of, the Bishop Auckland area.  A duo of ‘collector and shooter’, appear to have been responsible for a number of interesting older records of birds that were then of considerable rarity.  There are  a number of fascinating aspects to David’s research, not least his interrogation of old census details to examine how the employment of the two men involved, changed through time, and how this change in terms of social standing and professional activity, might serve to heighten suspicion about some of their sightings, and the origin of these, as oppose to damping it down.

... posted by Keith Bowey