Got It!
Taken 3-8-09, 2:25 p.m. in my yard as the cedar waxwing prepared to eat a berry on the crabapple tree.
Camera: handheld, Canon 55-250 mm IS lens set at 208 mm, evaluative metering, aperture priority (f/7.1), 1/1000, ISO 200
Edited with Adobe PSE7 (smart fix, lighten shadows) and then custom cropped in Picasa 3
Contest: Nature (March 2009)
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Uploaded on March 10, 2009