At Audubon, we held our breath this year as a predicted busy hurricane season had the potential to impact not only our coastal communities, but our beach-nesting birds as well. Hurricane Debby skirted Florida's Gulf Coast as a tropical storm, effectively ending the nesting season in Southwest Florida before making landfall as a hurricane in the Big Bend area in August. Helene and Milton had large impacts on neighborhoods, shorelines, and barrier islands in September and October.