Cobalt 60 i am still thinking the one bird is a Summer Tanager and not a House Finch. The picture makes the lower half very faded but the wing portion is the only part of the bird that is a light brown. Everything else is a pale red.
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EDIT The beak definitely looks more house finch but man the house finch pictures online do not show nearly as much red as the one in the yard.
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It is possible, but the beak appears to be the big conical beak of a finch, which is a seed eater. Tanangers are insect eaters primarily and have a slightly less robust beak.
One revision - what I thought was a nuthatch is actually a Chipping Sparrow.