When a hurricane approaches, what can you do to protect backyard birds – or should you do anything at all? Learn how to keep yourself and your feathered friends safe during a storm.

When a hurricane approaches, what can you do to protect backyard birds – or should you do anything at all? Learn how to keep yourself and your feathered friends safe during a storm.
One of the most challenging parts of moving to a new part of the country is relearning what different seasons mean in terms of local avifauna, migration and breeding seasons. Here in Florida, autumn means the return of the wiggle-butts, AKA the palm warblers.
Many birders I know, myself included, keep a variety of lists – life lists, yard lists, year lists, seasonal lists, trip lists, species family lists and more. Most lists are just for our own entertainment, study and enjoyment, but there…