This is a dark eyed Junko (male) puffed up to stay warm on a cold day.
I always leave the flower heads of the echiinacea and rudebeckia (black eyed Susan) to die back to seed heads. Here you can see a junko is pecking at the seed head of a rudebeckia.
This is also my entry for Don’t Hold Your Breath blogs’ Bird of the week.
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