Spotting

I could see it either way, actually, but my money's on scale insects. They look rather similar to the third photograph here: http://tomlinsonbomberger.com/these-tree...

I was peering through my old spottings and I found this one. At the time of the spotting, I thought it was an egg mass, but now I think that they can be imature scale insects. I'd like an opinion, if possible.

Yes Cindy, we have quite some critters here. Thanks for the praise.

Another awesome spotting! You have so many bugs there :) You're going to reach 1,000 spotting before me.