Bird Watching: can anybody identify this bird?, 1 by shortleaf

shortleaf wrote:
So thats the suspect eh? I was reading about the description and all after I Googled it.
It must have quite a bit of change in plumage in Winter. I didn't see any white tails in the photos and the bird here didn't have any yellow that I recall. Its Winter plumage must have added a lot because it wasn't really that small of a bird. I thot it was closer to the size of a Starling. The reading I did says its quite a small bird. It was running other birds off, a Downy Woodpecker was one, it was smaller than this bird. I like Finches, hope they are coming around.
Heres one site I read on it. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Goldfinch
Thanks, Will