Maybe a female Red-winged Blackbird?
I think we have to relocate our birdfeeder. It’s getting hit by the sprinklers and wetting the seeds, enough that WEEDS are growing in the feeder. Ew.
Seed has been dumped and feeder is currently soaking in bleach water. We have our bird bath in the middle of our “butterfly garden” and we’d like to find a new place for the feeder so that 1) Ivylad can see from his wheelchair on the screened in patio 2) Is far enough away from trees that marauding squirrels can’t attack 3) Is close enough to the bird bath but 4) Doesn’t get hit by sprinklers.
Female rose breasted grosbeak look like big sparrows.
The Merlin App can help you.
Squirrel update. I now have some short lengths of 1/2" pvc pipe that spins freely and some baffles to keep them from crawling along the cable. Seems to be working so far. The suet lasts more than one night.
However, the second batch of bird seed I picked up is not anywhere near as popular with the bigger guys like Jays and Cards. Only getting little finches etc now.
The next day, he was gone. 
I got a hermit thrush in the yard earlier this year. I’ve also got a curve billed thrasher who likes hanging around in the cholla cactus and singing.
If there are Harris’s Sparrows around, it’s more likely to be a female Black-headed Grosbeak (but the two are very similar).
I don’t mind the squirrels. The main point of the birdfeeder is just to entertain the cats (it’s hanging right outside “their” window) and they’re just as interested in the squirrels as the birds. There is at least one clever squirrel who leaps onto the thing and precariously lays on the tray at the bottom of the thing and fills up.
No feeder, but we do some native planting and usually attract Anna’s hummingbirds to the currant. Best birds this weekend are a northern flicker and a spotted towhee.
That may be it! The region is right as well. I’m going to keep looking at my mom’s feeder, and consult with my sister, who’s a wheel in the local Audubond Society chapter.
My problem with squirrels is that squirrels are greedy. If a squirrel gets to the feeder they’ll empty it out, and then there’s nothing left for the birds until I get there to refill it. Even with the Squirrel Buster feeder they come and eat the seeds that fall on the ground, which is fine with me and just as entertaining for the cat.
This weekend I had an indigo bunting visit my feeders - he looks very striking with the bright blue plumage. Also what appears to be white-crowned sparrows, which I’ve never seen before. Also, there were house and Carolina wrens picking around the pebbles in the area - I haven’t gotten good looks at those before so it was interesting to see how the two species look very unique compared to each other. We also had some wild turkeys nearby, though not at the feeder.
Also not at the feeders but in the nearby woods, here are the pileated woodpeckers that I’ve seen:
kayaker, my sister and I agree that your ID of the bird must be the correct one, a female rose-breasted grosbeak. They are migrating through this area right now, she says.
Last few days I’ve had a hen turkey eating the black oil sunflower seeds piled from my hanging feeders.
Just got my first Baltimore Oriole feeder yesterday; an orange cut in half and a little cup of grape jelly. It works great and I have a constant stream of orioles outside my window. I had no idea it was so easy to attract them.
I chose this one rather than the hummingbird-like nectar feeder so I don’t have to deal with cleaning the mess of sugar water.
I have an upside-down suet feeder that helps keep the grackles and starlings off it. I get seven kinds of woodpeckers in Pennsylvania.
My Squirrel Busters took too much damage from bears so I switched to cheap plastic feeders in a pole with squirrel baffles. I found the sparrows (HOSP) around here don’t like safflower seed so I feed only that with an occasional small handful of sunflower seeds.
I saw a couple of eastern bluebirds in my backyard yesterday. It looked like an adult and a juvenile and I even saw the adult feeding something to the little one.
Finally got some birds showing up. Today I think it was a finch.
It’s been raining here since Monday. We have a large covered wraparound porch on the front of the house and the little birds here - mostly wrens and some finches - have taken to using it to shelter from the rain. They’re cute, but damn, do they poop a lot.
For 3 years, I’ve been feeding breacrumbs to my little colony of about ten Eurasian Tree Sparrows in my veranda. Suddenly, most disappeared,overnight, with only 3 left. Haven’t noticed any stray cats, and a couple of Shrikes can’t eat that many. Etsies are non-migratory, so yhat’s not it.