Just a little left of center of this image is a dead tree. The first few days I was here, seeing it bothered me; I wanted to remove it. But lately, I have begun to see it as beautiful. Yesterday, a scarlet tanager landed on the uppermost branch and sat there for several minutes. If it had landed on any of the surrounding trees, I wouldn’t have been able to see it. But when I saw an orange speck fly into the tree, I picked up my binoculars and saw it “up close.” It looked very much like the photo below. That dead tree belongs here.
Image from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: All About Birds
Wow. Such a beautiful bird. I’ve never seen one, but sure wish they would migrate here too.