Okay, so there’s this stretch of road I drive every day, and every time I come to this one curve, I see this. Honestly, every time, I think it looks like a bird.

Now, I KNOW, of course, that it’s just a branch of dead leaves. Its color contrasts against the green background, and it hangs out over the street, a bit, so it gets silhouetted as you round the curve. I am well aware that it’s not a bird.

But there’s something about the shape … my brain always ’sees’ a crested head, two wings, and a pair of perching feet. (Go ahead. Click on it to see the bigger version.)

Crazy? Well, maybe, but Mother Nature is darn good at optical illusions, don’t you think?

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