Photo of the Week: A Morning for Cliff Swallows

A small brown bird with outstretched wings, short square tail, buffy-orange rump, and white head patch pauses over dried brown mud nests in a corner of a gray concrete portion of a street bridge.

As a birder, sometimes you need to remind yourself to look at things other than trees, bushes, yards, and fields to see birds.

Like bridges—this one is over the Huron River at Gallup Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan—where you see Cliff Swallow nests as you look up from the trail.

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Leaving Evernote: Part 2

Person using a pen to handwrite a checklist in a paper journal.

When I wrote about leaving Evernote earlier this month, I explained what caused me to reconsider an application I’ve used for over 15 years.

But I didn’t explain what app I was moving to, even though I was thrilled to find an option to export my dozens of Evernote notebooks.

Because I hadn’t figured out which app would work best for me.

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