Learn the principles of “birdscaping” your yard when you join Sharon Sorenson, author of “Planting Native to Attract Birds to Your Yard.” She will discuss and illustrate what she and her husband did to log 127 bird species last year in their certified backyard wildlife habitat (and 56 butterfly species). Birdscaping is an up-and-coming term used to describe native landscaping for birds. Planting to attract birds to the yard acknowledges that birds need more than feeders and feed. Birds depend entirely on the vegetation around them for food, shelter, nest sites and nesting materials—birdscaping makes all the difference.