LD 183 Blasted leaves

Not a profanity, only a description.   

I have no idea what caused this and I only noticed it because I had the Nikon with  the long zoom out to take another photograph and saw something hanging off a tree, a fair distance away and high up.

It turned out to be this clump of dead or dying leaves, at the end of an otherwise bare branch.   The rest of the tree looked fine. 

Though to be fair it was the shape and colours that made it a blip, not the puzzle....