[All photographs copyright, Gary Nunn 2013] – Yes, exactly one year apart on the same day – 15 Sep 2012 to 15 Sep 2013 – I find another Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus in Point Loma! What are the chances of that happening? This one was foraging under a densely-canopied thicket at the south end of Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) just north of Rohr Hall by the east PLNU fence-line. I was actually walking around the thicket looking for a mystery Empidonax flycatcher seen by Sue Smith when I happened upon the Ovenbird. I only got a brief view as it flitted into thicker cover only to be seen as a silhouette walking chicken like under the bushes. I managed to catch a hurried photograph but the foreground twigs caught the camera autofocus leaving me with an artistic looking “blurred” Ovenbird! And then it was gone. I waited some considerable time for a reappearance but it seemed to have vanished and I eventually gave up. I was happy to hear that just an hour or so later Barbara Carlson and Matt Sadowski had come over to search for it and found it right back in the original location walking in the open among dead leaves. Matt obtained some great photographs that he kindly shared with me and which are shown below.

Ovenbird – Point Loma Nazarene University, Point Loma 15 Sep 2013

Ovenbird – Point Loma Nazarene University, Point Loma 15 Sep 2013. Photograph by Matt Sadowski.

Ovenbird – Point Loma Nazarene University, Point Loma 15 Sep 2013. Photograph by Matt Sadowski.

Ovenbird – Point Loma Nazarene University, Point Loma 15 Sep 2013. Photograph by Matt Sadowski.