Mar 01 2011 - new visitot

In the middle if a particularly intense business call, I look out onto the deck and get a partial view of an unusual but familiar silhouette. Managing to reach my handy bins, and a Cedar Waxwing joined the deck list.

As a Mourning Dive crouched in relaxed pose on the bird bath I had a chance to study the feather tracts around the head. In a very relaxed posed the feathers on the ear coverts, above the black mark at the bottom, rear of the coverts, stood out like a tufts in otherwise smooth plumage