For the botanically inclined, hunting for the LeConte's using a barberry (as most posts have called it) or bayberry (a Freudian typo from spending too much time lately in the coastal marshes!) will avail thee naught. 

The shrub is multiflora rose, an introduced exotic.  The berries are rose hips. As you walk the dike path it lines up directly between you and the wood duck box in the cattails. 

On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Marcy Stutzman <> wrote:

> Dave Brenneman just called as he was leaving Swan Harbor Farm Park in Harford County saying the Le Conte's Sparrow made an appearance again this morning (sometime between 8:15/8:30 - 9:00 a.m.). Several birders were there and got to see the sparrow. Dave and other photographers also got some great pics. The sparrow showed about half way between the blind and the bayberry bush (bush with red berries), which seems to be about where it popped up yesterday morning around 7:20 a.m.
> 
> No reports of seeing the Short-eared Owl.
> 
> Dave mentioned, and yesterday I observed also, that the Bluebirds are almost an irredescent blue as the fly in the sun - quite a stunning effect.
> 
> Marcy
> 
> Marcy Stutzman
> Russett, MD
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