I wrote this column on a morning when the heat index was predicated to get to 100. And although it may be psychological, somehow my morning coffee doesn’t taste as good on hot mornings like that.

So, let’s take a little birding trip to the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Puffins in cliffs in the Shetlands Islands have been a recent ...

This flowering ground cover has colorful blooms that will attract hummingbirds, and its tubular shape makes it easy for them to feed on the nectar.