Whatbird.com

We had a bird in our backyard we cannot find in our books or online.  It fed on my wife's homemade suet (nuts, peanut butter, lard, etc.).  It was about five inches long and had a large amout of red color.  There was red around the eyes a break of yellowish tan on the back of its neck and red again on tts back.  Red was on its breast changing to yellowish tan on his belly. The wings are a medium brown. The body was plump and the beak about like a sparrow.

I have two fairly good pictures but cannot figure out how to upload them.  The insert image button asks for a URL, and I just have some jpg pictures on my hard drive.  Teach me how to insert my pictures and I'll add them. 

I'm located in St. Louis, Missouri. 

TO BE MORE SPECIFIC ON THE COLOR  I accessed the birds.cornell.edu site and found field marks identified.  So the crown appears to be red.  The head yellow/tan.  The nape red.  The upper coverts red,  The tail medium brown.  The wing medium brown.  The throat and breast are red, and the belly is yellow/tan.  I would describe it as a perching bird.  It sat on branches much of the time.  It did not cling to the side of a branch, but my suet is stuffed into holes on a log and it clung to the side of the log to feed.

 DLGibbons
 

Closest thing I can find is a Red faced warbler.

The red surrounds its eye.  It makes me think of those feather masks used in New Orleans. The other primary color is indeed a yellow/tan, not white.   Besides the red breasted warbler does not seem to be in the St. Louis area from what my Google search shows.  DLGibbons

To add a pic from your hard drive, click on Options at the top of your post.  You can select Add/Update, then find your pic and attach it that way.  It does need to be smaller than 640 kb, though.

 Your picture will clear everything up.
 

Thanks for the help posting pictures.  I added my picture that shows his front.  I have one that shows most of his back but cannot seem to add two pictures..  I'll create another blog in this category and call it "backyard bird 1a" so I can post the other picture.  DLGibbons

I think it is a summer tanager (male juvenile).  I have a similar photo and after my research that is what I am 99.5% sure it is.  Hopefully some more experienced birders will either validate that or give a definitive answer. 

After I posted my messages, my wife suggested I send a message to the St. Louis Audubon Society.  I emailed the pictures to the St. Louis Audubon Society asking for information.  As several of you suggested, they confirmed the bird was a "first year male summer tanager."  The representative of the St. Louis Audubon Society reported the males take the whole first year to turn all the way to the traditional red color.  Thanks to all of you for helping pin down this interesting bird.  It's my first summer tanager!  Happy Birding!  DLGibbons