This morning I woke up earlier than usual as I wanted to get a long run in when it was dark out.
About a mile and half into the run as I was exiting my neighborhood I noticed the outline of an owl sitting on a telephone wire. When I saw it I was actually telling myself how cool owls are and how I enjoy seeing them around my neighborhood. My daughter is really into birds of prey and actually went to a week long camp at the local Audubon Society the last two summers. As I ran under the telephone wire the owl was sitting on, I was thinking how cool she’ll think it is that I saw an owl on my run.
Then about two miles later, in a different neighborhood, I was running in the middle of the street, when all of a sudden I feel something sharp on the top of my head. At first I thought that i somehow I didn’t see a low hanging branch and it scraped my head. Naturally, I stutter stepped and ducked my head down and let out a brief “Owww”. As I looked up, I saw an owl flying low heading in the same direction I was running in. I watched him land about 20 yards in front of me on top of a 10 foot street sign. I then immediately realized that the damn owl had attacked me. I kept running and screamed obscenities at the owl as a shot of adrenaline hit me. He just looked at me and spun his head around as I passed him
I’ve heard of owls attacking people before but I never thought it would happen to me. Fortunately, there weren’t any puncture wounds on my scalp. I kept feeling around on my head thinking I was probably bleeding but there was no blood. I think the encounter could have been a lot worse than it was and the owl probably could have tore my scalp up pretty good if it wanted to.
About a mile and half into the run as I was exiting my neighborhood I noticed the outline of an owl sitting on a telephone wire. When I saw it I was actually telling myself how cool owls are and how I enjoy seeing them around my neighborhood. My daughter is really into birds of prey and actually went to a week long camp at the local Audubon Society the last two summers. As I ran under the telephone wire the owl was sitting on, I was thinking how cool she’ll think it is that I saw an owl on my run.
Then about two miles later, in a different neighborhood, I was running in the middle of the street, when all of a sudden I feel something sharp on the top of my head. At first I thought that i somehow I didn’t see a low hanging branch and it scraped my head. Naturally, I stutter stepped and ducked my head down and let out a brief “Owww”. As I looked up, I saw an owl flying low heading in the same direction I was running in. I watched him land about 20 yards in front of me on top of a 10 foot street sign. I then immediately realized that the damn owl had attacked me. I kept running and screamed obscenities at the owl as a shot of adrenaline hit me. He just looked at me and spun his head around as I passed him
I’ve heard of owls attacking people before but I never thought it would happen to me. Fortunately, there weren’t any puncture wounds on my scalp. I kept feeling around on my head thinking I was probably bleeding but there was no blood. I think the encounter could have been a lot worse than it was and the owl probably could have tore my scalp up pretty good if it wanted to.
