Within the last few weeks, we observed the passing of the summer solstice, a temporal turning point, marking our longest day and the beginning of the trend toward shorter periods of daylight.
Bird City: Building Communities Where Birds and People Thrive
New Grant Funded by the Green Mountain Bird Alliance
The Green Mountain Bird Alliance has awarded a grant to the Young Birders Club at Camels Hump Middle School to support a student-led effort to reduce bird collisions with the school's windows. The students collected and analyzed data to identify the four school windows where bird strikes occurred most frequently. Their research provided the foundation for a practical conservation project aimed at making the building safer for birds.
Spring Outings
President’s Message Winter 2026
With over fifty Audubon chapters throughout the United States moving to rename themselves to become “Bird Alliances,” the Vermont chapters met to discuss taking a similar action. After considerable thought and discussion over a two-year period, the Green Mountain Audubon Society voted to change the organization’s name to the Green Mountain Bird Alliance.
Green Mountain Bird Alliance Adds Two New Board Members
Conservation Committee Re-formed
A Powerful Lesson
Nature has always been my best teacher. The other day, it reminded me, painfully but beautifully, that conservation successes are hard won, measured in tiny increments, and result from tireless work, usually over long periods of time. It reinforced, too, that each of us has a role to play in bringing them about—some admittedly more skillfully than others, as I witnessed firsthand—but a role, nonetheless.