The lack of leaves in this "see-through season" reveals aspects of the landscape otherwise obscured. For example, "Check out that nest!" I exclaimed to my friend, and we admired the small cup suspended between a Y in the sugar maple twigs. The placement of the nest, plus the few pale strips of paper from a bald-faced hornet nest woven among grass, bark, and pine needles, told me that it was likely built by a red-eyed vireo.