[obol] new to the list

[Mike Dressel]

Hello, I am new to the list. I have been watching backyard birds for 10 years or so now. This year I have a bird I have not see before. The bird frequents my suet feeders, but avoids the other feeders. I see two or three at a time occasionally, but usually just one. It looks like a gray-blue version of an American Goldfinch, about the same size, dark to black beak, with finch like behaviors. The most distinctive feature I have been able to identify is its decidedly yellow rump. This shows only wings are fully spread and flapping. The yellow rump is diamond shaped, roughly speaking. I have scoured my books and the internet. I cannot find this one. According to what I have found in my research it is NOT: 1.  a yellow rumped warbler, or any other warbler I can find, (although it certainly could be a warbler) 2. any sort of finch I can find. 3. a kinglet 4. a vireo 5. a siskin gone funky.
 
Can anyone give me a steer? It's here every day and making me nuts trying to identify it. Thanks for accepting the new guy to the list and one who is clearly lost in this search.
 
Mike
 
Michael J. Dressel
Director of Campus Safety
  Linfield College
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