Bird Identification: CLOSED: Identify This Bird Please - Volume 6., 0 by PeeperKeeper

PeeperKeeper wrote:
Hi all! I've been absent a bit since I first started coming here. Well, actually not absent from DG, but just lurking here in birds instead of posting a lot like I was.

Anyway, back on Feb 19, I saw these birds at my finch feeder and assumed they were American Goldfinch with drastic plumage change since I last saw them. But it seems like they have too much black on their backs compared to the pics at Cornell. What do I have?

Here you can see the males from front and back.