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Feb. 5, 1955 - Saturday.
Last Sunday (Jan. 30) Irston Barnes called to say that a [[underlined]] Brown-Capped Chickadee [[/underlined]] had been seen at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Benington, at Wellington, South of Alexandria and just off the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway. Today, Mr. Fast and I went down, and found Barnes and Shirley Briggs there, waiting to get photographs. Mr. & Mrs. Benington were home, and later Ross Summers and Elsie Meyer of the D.C. Audubon Society (formerly of the Mass. Audubon Soc.) arrived. We had very fine views of the "Brown-cap" from 1:00 until 3:30 P.M., when we had to leave. It came to the tray feeder by the porch door repeatedly while several of us stood within 10-15 ft., talking, and also came to the hanging post feeder