Nice save M and L!
owls are neat. They are natures “stealth glider”. They’re designed to fly in quiet mode.
ten years or so back I was swinging out over the river we have out back on an old rope swing just as it was about to turn dark. At the peak of the swing’s arch out over the river I collided with something flying and I know it had to be an owl. They fly up and down the river like that in between the trees that grow on both sides. I never heard him coming and apparently he wasn’t expecting a human being to be flying out to broadside him over the river that time of night. He recovered (obviously) because I never heard him hit the water.