[EBB Sightings] Family day at Sunol: Bushtits and What?

Alan Kaplan wrote:
> There were a pair of adult Steller's Jays and five birds with them which 
> I took to be juveniles of jays, but they were not blue at all- they had 
> brown "shawls" (scapulars), and were otherwise mostly gray. And they had 
> large bills and the beginnings of crests.  ...
> The two adult jays seemed to be associated with this mob, but what were 
> they?

Not an answer - but I saw a similar bird from the California Zephyr last 
month: dark, but with a bright brown shawl. Mine had a pretty good crest 
and the body seemed dark blue. It was in either the Rockies or the 
Sierras - the sort of thing that seems obviously memorable at the time, 
and totally forgettable afterward....

Juvie Steller's sounds reasonable. Anyone know?

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