I'm forwarding the following post from Mark Mahnke, who's unable to post
to MDOsprey.

"I saw a B-C Chickadee this morning at Hains Point. I had dipped six or
seven times in the last week or so on finding the bird in the area of
the first bathroom building. After failing again this morning, walking
that area for twenty minutes or so, I got back in the car and drove
north up the Potomac side. One hundred feet or so before the second
bathroom building,  a northern cardinal flew in front of my car so I
parked and got out. The cardinal was the first passerine I had seen in
fifty minutes or so on a cold, windy morning. On the ground was a
mockingbird. As I walked south there was a flock of white-throated
sparrows digging in the ground and flying about. Then I saw the
Chickadee in a cherry tree on the left (east) side of the road. It fed
very actively for the ten minutes or so that I watched, never vocalizing
and never paying any attention to me"  Mark M.

It took me a couple of tries to see this bird, and I understand it took
Steve Hersey 5 times, so clearly the bird can be tricky to find.  I'm
guessing that it spends a fair amount of time on the golf course itself
(it had a little bitty golf bag with it when I saw it ;-), so that might
explain why those of us on the wrong side of the fence have had such a
hard time.

Good birding,
Paul Pisano
Arlington, VA