The photo is pretty blurry but guessing House Finch?

Here is a link that might be useful: Cornell Lab House Finch

We have a lot of finches in our yard and I've noticed the color seems off from normal. The birds almost look sick.
Some of the Blue Jays look even worse. Like they had lost most of the feathers around their head.

Hard to say for sure but looks like they might have House Finch Eye Disease

Here is a link that might be useful: House Finch Eye Disease

So sorry to hear about house finch eye disease.

About blue jays I recently read that they tend to molt all their head feathers at once, so hopefully the ones seen by Ruth are not diseased.

Here is a link that might be useful: Balding blue jays ...

Yes that is how some of the Blue Jays have looked recently.

Thanks - house finch seems a good fit. Looks like we're in that narrow band they do not hang out in year round, so explains why not frequently seen here. Thought flight may have been off because it was young, but eye disease probably a better explanation - glad to learn of it, but still a sad thing.

Crazy about the bald jays - nice to know before seeing one. They are common here in spring and early summer, but scarce this time of year for some reason.

might be a juvenile cardinal