As whwo said: Yellow-rumped Warbler is a good guess. The winter plumage of the males is much more muted - check the adult female on the bottom of the All About Birds link. Claire

See THIS POST. tj

Whitelacey.......this is so funny! I looked out my kitchen window, and on the ground under my suet feeder was a bird that looked just like what you described. Very black head and back with white stripes on the wings, and very white chest and abdomen. Of course, just as I turned to get my camera, it flew off. I should have stayed and observed more instead! As it flew off, it had pretty obvious white wing stripes. My first inclination was a juvenile male towhee.....since we have lots of towhees around. I saw no brown. I'll keep my eye out and my camera close-by........but I immediately thought of you and wondered if, now, I will be driven crazy too. hahaha What caught my eye as it was flying up to a tree was the white on it's wings, which made me think of a red-headed woodpecker. I looked up juvenile redheaded woodpecker and some of the pics looked like it, except mostly in the pics, their heads were grayish. Oh well.....hopefully I'll see it again!

third clip... thats it ... https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gray_Catbird/sounds# good job babs.. who needs birders.. when i got a babs .. lol ... and there sure are enough cats around.. so go figure on that .. lol .. i have an old 3 gal dog water bowl on the deck ... for the feral cats.. and birds in the heat of summer ... so i get all kinds of interesting fauna out the kitchen window ... you should hear the old cat on the inside of the sliding door.. bitchin at the birds.. i dont even know how to explain that noise.. lol .. ken