"Always have a large group of these hang out in my crab apple tree in December when they come through the Wenas valley. Neat birds"
That would be the Cedar Waxwing - they are really cool.
In the pic you can barely make out a small piece of red, next to the white on it's back.
That's the waxwing part of this bird. It's not really a feather, I'm not sure what it is called. It almost seems synthetic, or waxy.
