I have a story about owls. In NZ there is an age old tradition among Maori that if you see an owl in the daytime, it ain't good. I was out hunting with a mate when a morepork, known by Maori as Ruru, a small native owl, flew down and sat on a branch a few feet in front of us, and just looked at us. My mate said, gotta go home. Something's happened.
Turned out his mum's sister had died at the time we saw that owl.
Wow. Well i hope i never see one in the day...
But u didn't just see an owl... Its behaviour which you described is spooky...
How it just landed on a perch a few feet away and eye balled you in silence...
That gives me the shivers. It delivered the message...
Was your mate a Maori or did they just get that awful feeling that something was wrong?
It reminds me one time we where walking back from a hidden local swimming hole when a big brown goshawk flew in close and perched on a branch just a few meters up...
So we sat down to admire it... What a staunch looking bird, big and tall, those big yellow eyes piercing us...
It was probably a female as they are the larger than males in birds of prey
Then it started to belt out its bird call towards us...
(The one we saw was fat like this one on the far left. Even fatter. It was a barrel)
It looked as angry as the birds above, screeching at us constantly. It wasn't happy with us being on its turf...
So we continued our walk out and i got that feeling that we were being watched...
I turn around and i see this...
(Excellent pictures sourced from google images)
Massive yellow eyes coming straight for us... What an aggressive bird.
It was still about 10 meters away when i saw it but it reached us in a flash and only turned away at the last moment.
Man... We were in fear, and got out as soon as we could...
What if i hadn't of turned around... It would of clipped one of us i reckon.
It could send its talons into your skull no problem if it wanted to.
Its weird that feeling of being watched. You guys know that feeling?
You turn around and catch someone watching you...
What is that? A 6th sense? Maybe the Holy Spirit?