If you carefully keep your bird records by state, be aware of the location of the New Hampshire-Vermont state line and use the appropriate eBird hotspots when you submit checklists. 

The Brattleboro Bridge (NH-119) is a new structure that will connect Hinsdale, New Hampshire and Brattleboro, Vermont over the Connecticut River. It will replace the old twin truss bridges that were built in 1920 and are now considered functionally obsolete. The new bridge will be about 1800 feet long and will have a modern design with improved safety features. The construction of the bridge began in 2023 and is expected to be completed by 2024. The project also involves the relocation of VT-142 and the installation of a traffic signal at the intersection with New Hampshire NH-119.

The Connecticut, New England’s longest river, stretches for 410 miles from a small pond on a spruce-fir ridge at the northern tip of New Hampshire on the Quebec border to the beaches and marshes of Long Island Sound. Its watershed drains some 11,000 square miles of rural, wild, and urban land. Two countries share a border at its northern edge, and four states are inextricably linked by this network of earth, river, and sea. All share in the rich heritage of the Connecticut, the “long tidal river” named by the Algonquians of southern New England. The Connecticut is just one of fourteen rivers in the nation designated as an American Heritage River. The US Department of Interior named it America’s first “Blueway” in 2012.