Barn Owl in bedroom!! (1 Viewer)

[lily2013]

A work colleague from Park Gate, Hampshire (on a modern housing estate) awoke at 0100 this morning to discover a barn owl perched on his bed! It had flown in through the open window and hopped around the room for 10 minutes onto the wardrobe, curtain rail and TV before flying back out. The room was in darkness at the time when he became aware of something flying across his bed! The owl was quite calm and not distressed.

Anyone else heard of this happening?

 

[birdboybowley]

Can't believe a wild Barnie would do that.......anyone near him keep an owl? Is that an anklet I can see or just a darker leg compared to the foot colouration.....?
Still must've freaked him out a bit!!!

 

[chris butterworth]

Looks like it's got an anklet / jesses on so it's an escape. Still a fantastic thing to find sitting on your bed though.

Chris

 

[lily2013]

He was a bit stunned to say the least! He doesnt know of anyone locally who keeps one. I've emailed Keith Betton, the Hants recorder, to see if he knows.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Mega tick - even if it is an escapee!!!

CB

 

[dantheman]

There have been a couple of threads on here about (presumed) wild owls in peoples houses, so not unprecedented. But still quite amazing.

 

[dantheman]

Ok, found one anyway -


Owl in the house

 

[JamesA]

That must have been a proper WTF moment.

 

[West End Birder]

Owl bet it was

 

[tittletattler]

Owl bet it was

I see he's left the door open. Was he born in a barn?

 

[Jon Turner]

Looks like it's got an anklet / jesses on so it's an escape. Still a fantastic thing to find sitting on your bed though.

Chris

I can't blow up the pic enough but is it just a ring? All I got in my bedroom recently was a juvenile Robin...:-C

 

[JTweedie]

Cracking! Maybe we should start a thread on bedroom ticks!

 

[dantheman]

Cracking! Maybe we should start a thread on bedroom ticks!

Erm, or possibly not?

 

[JTweedie]

he he!

 

[Gill Osborne]

All I got in my bedroom recently was a juvenile Robin...:-C

I had a newly fledged Swallow in 2005 - flew in through the open window and was perched on a picture frame when I walked in :t:

 

[NoSpringChicken]

That's nothing. i had a hawk in the sink the other morning.

Ron

 

[A2GG]

I see he's left the door open. Was he born in a barn?

teehee

 

[Ruff]

Some people have all he luck. Except that he clearly has mice. Unless the owl ate them.

 

[Simon Wates]

Erm, or possibly not?

Absolute humbugonian spoilsport - on second thoughts....that's a super bird to come and say hello at home!

 

[KenM]

No Barn Owls!...but several years ago, I was awoken by a ''kerfuffle'' as a small passerine (probably tit species) had flown through one open window..passed the fixed window pane..then out the next adjoining open window...with a grey blur in ''hot-pursuit''....the grey blur description would never have got passed any committee...but it's on my bedroom list