Teesmouth Bird Club

Its that time of year when many mammals are becoming more active (if only until they get squashed on the roads).  Just a reminder that any mammal records you come across would be much appreciated towards the developing Mammals of the North East publication.  Minimum requirement is species, date (year would do); grid ref (to 1km would do), recorder and preferably location, though any other information that you can supply such as numbers, habitat or age class would be a bonus.  Unlike birds, dead mammals count just as much as live ones.

The EYE project has kindly provided Northumbria Mammal Group with some updated maps of species distribution (updated albeit still with a few inaccuracies and plenty of gaps).  If anyone would like copies of these please let me know. If you have previously asked me to send you a copy of the updated maps please could you let me know again as my computer died a few weeks back and I lost all my old e-mails and e-mail addresses. 

My new e-mail address is bondian@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks
Ian

Just to clarify, in response to a question that Alistair raised.  Northumbria Mammal Group covers the whole of Cleveland (as well as Northumberland & Durham) including the bit of the North York Moors in Redcar & Cleveland. It doesn't make any sense biogeographically but it fits with political and wildlife trust boundaries.  By co-incidence Yorkshire mammal group's boundaries leave out the Yorkshire bits of Cleveland however they are also working on an atlas which they hope to publish this year so any mammal records that are south of the boundary would be gratefully received by them.  They need to go to Geoff Oxford at York University, who I assume is geoff.oxford@york.ac.uk or I can pass them on when I get my contact list up and running again.  If you are including any Yorkshire records with those that you send me please could you indicate as such as I wont necessarily know (unless its somewhere obvious like Thirsk)

Many thanks to those of you who have already sent me some records and to the many of you who will no doubt do so.  Since I started asking a few months back I have had more responses from the bird club than the mammal group 

Ian