That was it… The h1 you found was the is_singular() function for wordpress that is not needed. Thank you for the extra set of eyes!
Its weird when navigating to a category page it pushes the body of the html document down by 5px without reason..
This does NOT happen on any other regular page or post… its just the category archive page.
On a categories page the entire body element is being mysteriously pushed downward but there is no trace of a margin-top being added… anyone have any idea on what is causing this?