Greetings all,

This morning Roz Renfrew and I got a guided tour of the interior of the 
Lebanon Airport for the purposes of the Upper Valley Grassland Bird Project. 
We surveyed 11 points along both runways, and turned up - conservatively - 
27 Savannah Sparrows, 7 Eastern Meadowlarks (including a probable family 
group), and 5 Bobolinks. The latter were something of a surprise, but the 
airport manager informed us that the weather has precluded much of their 
usual intensive mowing regime this summer, which had resulted in some pretty 
tall grass in many areas. We thus have hope that at least some birds here 
(e.g., the meadowlarks) may have had a chance to fledge some young. It's 
also great to see so many meadowlarks in at least ONE spot in the Upper 
Valley, since I don't think too many have turned up on other surveys farther 
north. If anyone wants a meadowlark fix for the U.V., the birds were 
concentrated at the northwest corner, and so should be detectable (at least 
by song) from the parking lot near the control tower at the end of Airport 
Road.

Stay dry....
Pam Hunt
Concord, NH