Is it too early for juvenile Cedar Waxwings? They would show a bit of a white
eyestripe, but no mask.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== hummer at isomedia.com

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>
> We pulled over by the side of the road, and I got out my binoculars,
> and spotted some motion in the top of a large dead tree. Two birds,
> approximately sparrow-sized, VERY plump, sort of grayish (no
> distinctive markings that I could make out, although I sure
> tried,)...but the puzzling thing was that they both seemed to have
> CRESTS. If I didn't know better, I'd have thought they were titmice
> off on a holiday to regions not usually explored by same. I posted
> this question to a webpage, and the guy said "probably a Stellar's
> Jay." HARUMPH! ..."Or a Cedar Waxwing." DOUBLE HARUMPH!
> No "masks" on these guys -- that much at least was clear.