Apparently

As mentioned previously on this blog, we've had several nasty storms over during the past month. Resulting in plenty of broken branches and downed trees. Like the one in the image below.

We were wandering down this road looking for birds; specifically early migrant warblers.

We didn't find any. No birds. None. Forget migrants, we didn't find any birds at all.

But this tree ...

... why did't it fall completely over?

Are you kidding me?

It landed on top of the one tree across the road that was still (at least in part) standing? Look at the images again. There are no other trees to either side of the "pole" tree.

So, the top of one tree had to be broken off, leaving the trunk standing, as if it were a post. And the second tree had to fall at just the right angle to land on top of this broken off trunk. And slow enough so it didn't bounce off. And the broken off top had to be flat enough so the falling tree didn't slide off one side or the other. Really? That actually happened?

Apparently.