What kind of bird?
Not-A-wren
We have been advised that this is not a wren (originally posted here); we concur upon review of the image; our Peterson’s field guide had lots of brown birds and most of them are wrens; instead of using the photo as reference, we went by memory. The beak and tail are wrong. Does anybody have a guess (we are currently away from our Peterson’s)?
Pine Siskins?
The pine siskin is a good guess but the tail isn’t right; the siskin’s tail is short, wide, and notched; we will be posting shortly our guess with a more detailed photo.