Grab your binoculars this spring and join us for an all–out grassland bird blitz! Here is your chance to help put grassland bird “hotspots” on the map of the Upper Valley for both Vermont and New Hampshire. This spring and summer the "Upper Valley Grassland Bird Conservation Project" will be scouring fields and farms for grassland birds, and we need your help. We need people to make stops along roadsides, looking and listening for just a few grassland bird species, in both VT and NH. Easy to do, easy to learn, easy for everyone to participate. The information you collect will allow us to identify key grassland habitats in the region. Then, the following year, we will provide willing landowners in those areas with management tools to improve the quality of their open lands for grassland birds. What’s more, some sites were surveyed in the late 1990s by Massachusetts Audubon and its partners, and this survey, 15 years later, will show how changes on the land have affected the grassland bird community. Surveys can be conducted any day in good weather conditions from mid- May through early July, in the mornings (5:30 - 9:30am). Volunteers are welcome to visit as many sites as they wish. Help us create more quality habitat for our grassland birds! For more information, please contact Jamie Sydoriak at [log in to unmask] The Upper Valley Grassland Bird Conservation Project is a partnership of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, New Hampshire Audubon, and Plymouth State University. Jamie Sydoriak (Plymouth State) Rosalind Renfrew (Vermont Center for Ecostudies) Pam Hunt (NH Audubon)