Nucifraga columbiana
Clark’s Nutcrackers have pale gray heads and bodies, black bills and dark eyes, black wings with white patches and black tails with white edges. Sexes are similar.
My eyes and my birding instincts didn't lead me astray because there was a Clark's Nutcracker perched at the top of the fir.
So, a quick post this morning of a Clark's Nutcracker that I photographed in July of 2008 on my first trip to Utah to photograph birds prior to moving here in 2009.