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  • So funny how he was just staring at you. So cute.

  • That is soo cute I would have brought him in and kissed him so much 

  • He looks like a kitty wanting to come inside!

  • This has to be the cutest owl vid on YouTube. That little owl is so cute!!! ^_^

    At 1st I thought he was just staring at the camera being silly. Then I realized o he's staring at you...I wonder what he wants.

  • poor birdy

  • poor things is trying to figure out why his fluid reality turned into a solid pain of glass...

  • eppek varmı panpa?

  • Cutest thing ever. Gotta say. Loved how you used the ritz cracker and flyswatter.

  • aww! youre so lucky. Saw Whets are one of my most fave owls. when i was 9 my mum and i rescued a stunned female Barred owl from the side of tthe road. she was uninjured, just sitting there. we picked her up in a jacket and took her home and put her in a cardboard box to watch her while we called the wildlife rescue. :) she didnt try to get out of the box even, just looked up at us with her huge steal your heart brown eyes. and the inprint is like the shroud of turin! lol.

  • I'm sure he smacked into the window and was just in shock which is why he was so unresponsive all night.

  • Little guy must have rung his bell pretty good on your glass. He's definitely stunned. But saw-whet owls are pretty bold. I've moved pine branches to see one from just a foot or two away, and he just stared at me.

    BTW, there's a pic floating around of a radio-studio window in Russia with the muddy imprint of a HUGE owl covering most of it. You could see almost every feather in the wings. I'm fairly certain I could make out the surprised expression on the face imprint, too.

  • first i thought your film would be something like paranormal activities :D really cute ^^

  • Must be cleans with Windex lol

  • omg when u were trying to move him withthe fly swatter he made that clicking sound with his beak--- HOW CUTE!

  • yo owl, why soo serious bro lol, and when you touched it with the flyswatter, the owl was like touch me again and ill bite you, (chompin his beak together) haha

  • Awwww soooo cute!

  • I think he was from *Blair witch Project area*. The way he was lQQk @ U & next morning u saw dat on ur window….scarrryyyy

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  • Aah...such a a really darling owl...those eyes!! Yes, it was stunned & needed to be kept quiet & even kept warm by being held in a towel next to a warm body for a short time (just in case) as often they can possibly die from a brain concussion & many birds have often died depending on how hard they hit the glass.Actually, I was frightened to watch the video as I didn't know your intentions & after I saw the cracker & flyswatter....relieved & very happy it recovered & flew away. Thanks :)

  • @Miycah10 No worries, animal lover here. I would not harm a bird for any reason.

  • At 1:03 it looked like you just put a kitten out in the cold. :O

  • He needed a bottle of Advil after that. No wonder he was looking at you funny. He probably saw 3 of you.

  • It's so cute, probably a bad idea to pick it up though.

  • @jacebigelow-Your actions were fine , you never know how a wild animal is going to react . This happens quite often - he was too disoriented to feel "terrorized" , infact you could have picked him up without issue . BTW that was a very cool ghost imprint he left on the glass !

    - Thanks for the vid

  • Oh and don't worry, owls have MUCH stronger necks than other birds and animals so it was probably just very confused as to why it couldn't fly there.

  • Lol he gave it a cracker. They only eat other animals silly person, he is not a parrot. ^_^ It was nice of them to try tho.

  • @Lovewater224 It was for size reference, and I was just trying to get a reaction from him.... any reaction at all since nothing else seemed to work.....

  • @ xavierx93 That was his beak clacking-not a sign of stress , owls will do this for many reasons. I work for a wildlife rescue center and see this daily - even when they are playing..and yes , we do have a saw whet

  • @MrRelhed When i got the fly swatter, it was just to see if I could get him to move one way or another. I didn't know if he was stuck in the boards or what.... never meant to terrorize him. Like everyone else has said, he was stunned but surprised he didn't fly away sooner. Even after I stopped the camera, he stared at me for a long time. I eventually grew tired and went back to bed :) This deck is high up off the ground - I wasn't worried about ground predators scooping him up.

  • He's absolutely adorable!!!! I love owls!

  • @jacebigelow yeah i saw it, that bird may have need advil... lol just kidding. owls dont take advil....

  • @jacebigelow im assuming that noise was him hitting the glass, so hard it stunned him into pain/shock he did not want to move for endless hours, he just needed time to recover and move on the poor thing...

  • @planetvicecity That noise *was* him hitting the glass. Did you watch the whole video and get to see the neat dust imprint on the glass ? If not, go check it out - near the end. Lots of people said I should have saved it, lift & transfer via large sheet of contact paper; CSI method ;) , but i never thought about it. It wore off naturally, and i think the video footage stayed on the camera about a year before i uploaded it...

  • awwww!!!! I WANT IT, I WANT IT I REALY WANT IT!!! THOSE EYES ARE BEUTIFUL LIKE THERE LOOKING INTO MY SOUL. HAHAHAHA

  • After hitting a window, birds are a bit like traumatized / paralyzed and it takes a while before they move and behave in a normal way again. Btw, very cute owl...

  • thats like a miracle. if there was a baby owl on my deck id be THRILLED id probably stay and watch it all night.

  • @samanbandana actually...some Native nations believed the owl was a bringer of death, and feared that they were coming for them. i have friends/family who will not even touch an owl feather.

  • @samanbandana I wish he would come back. I have dead mice in the freezer, ready for the microwave should i see him again.

  • @jacebigelow *shivers* I can imagine the stench x_x

  • @JVThrillz Freezer Zip-Lock.

  • wow he clicks his talons at 3:45.. pretty loud too..signs of stress

  • @xavierx93 I didn't know if he was "stuck" in the boards, or what. Was just trying to get him to move. At 2am, we don't always do the smartest of things, lol.

  • @xavierx93 Actually it is clacking its beak together.

  • quite a creepy little fellow :D unfortunately this kind of owl doesn't live where i do... :( i'd like to see one this close once:)

  • are you captivated by the owl or is the owl captivated by you?

    also, the whole "nudging with a fly-swatter" bit was pretty damn hilarious...

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  • he wants in D:

  • Adorable.

  • probably a weasel got him.

  • Also I believe he smacked on the window that night and was resting on your deck til it felt better =] awful cute though! I want it as a pet XD

  • IT LOOKS SO CURIOUSLY CUTE WHEN YEW FLICK THE CRACKER TO IT >.<

  • awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwe

  • AWW

  • He says, I'm not Polly I don't want a cracker... give me raw meat please! lol.. :)

    He was just sitting there trying to recoup from the smack to the window. :( My husband had one hit his patrol car tonight and he text me about it. He stopped the car and made sure he was ok, it was a baby owl too. He picked him up and moved him to the grass and he flew off.

  • Awe, it kinda looks like a cat to me (: He's so cute! :D ♥

  • @HorsieLuver4Ever Someone on here mentioned the cat "Puss in Boots" from the Shrek movies.

    

  • And the imprint was definitely not there at night? Perhaps you just didn't notice it then due to the different light? What a mysterious little owl! I hope it was ok. :) It seemed to want to come in, I wonder why.

  • awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww soooooooooo cute

  • awww :)

  • awww... just a beutiful animal!

  • awww! He has the same look as puss in boots from shrek!  :)

  • are you kidding me dudde? this is an alien. where do you live? i need to know where this happened?

  • are you kidding me dudde? this is an alien.

  • does your dog eat birds? :P

  • @matias19891 Only ones that cannot fly :(

  • @jacebigelow Oooh :( Cruel nature!

  • @matias19891 only at the side of crackers.

  • I just can't stop smiling!!!!!! he/she is so cute.my favorite animal is an owl...you know

  • I just can't stop smiling!!!!!!

  • poor thing it wacket into the glass it was dazed

  • I feel bad I laughed at the imprint. That's actualy very detailed for a dust print XD

  • @TheZombieMinion - Google "owl imprint on window" in Google Images. You can find a better one there. ;)

  • I want to put him in my pocket!!!

  • So small and cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuteeeeee­eeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

  • aww this is lovely. he was either in shock from his lil "bump" or happened to be on strike for something. or him mom dared him to do it :P

  • thats crazy i cant belive the imprint is so detailed lol must have been going fast

  • soooo cute and beautiful :)

  • @Dallimater......I agree,I agree.

  • What an amazing owl... Her or his gaze is very unlike the empty stare of most owls. Thanks for posting this. Gorgeous little owl and best shots of one's face I've ever seen. I doubt it would have eaten anything while it was still stunned no matter what you put there. Birds hit our windows with some frequency, unfortunately, even though we have stickers on them, and the birds never will take food or water while they are stunned.

  • the glass thing was kinda strange, maybe some spirit mark, an owl spirit passed by your house maybe?

  • its so adorable, owls are so damn cute, ohh my natturee!!

  • DAMN WINDEX. lol.

    This is so cute though, my favorite kind of owl. He must have been stunned from hitting the window because he hardly moved, and that's unusual.

  • Crashing into a glass door or window, a very common incident for daytime and nighttime birds. Because household window and door glass is (most of the time) not tinted or decorated with a bunch of stickers, the birds assume the pane is not there and that they can fly into or through the building. I've had several birds die in my yard because they flew full speed into the glass, fatally injuring or killing themselves by mistake. Fortunately, a lot of birds are only stunned and recover eventually.

  • I have birds fly into my glass doors also. Its not uncommon for the to be killed that way. Im sure he was probably stunned or temporarily too hurt to fly away.

  • 4th kind?

  • Well, poor little thing--but probably very lucky! Hope he isn't hurt. The image on the window is very odd, I think--yes, exactly like an owl, but I can't figure how the mark was left. (Insert Twilight Zone music here).

    I wish the little fellow well!

  • they are even more adorable, when your holding them in your hand :D

  • So cute but fly swatted prolly wasn't the best thing haha jk jk but the bill snapping is just a sign of self defence :) o and just in case you find any other owls on ur patio you shud keep some nice juicy crickets and caterpillars handy just in case their hungry and yes I know they eat mice but insects are easier to find aaaaannnddddd if it's a baby that's the only thing you can feed it unless you de bone a mouse and chop it into shreads and then give it to him lol

  • @kinaluvsmusic Ah, good advice ! Thanks ! Have never had another owl hit the glass bit if that happens again, i will have to find some insects somehow. I was glad that he was not stuck in the deck boards.

  • Hehe it simply got stunned by the hit, poor guy ^^' hopefully he get to itself after time and fly away

  • I thought "Ah! I know that noise!" And then when he wouldn't move I thought "Yep, totally flew into the window." Poor little thing!

    I hate to say that I love his little feet on the window that he left for you. XD Lucky he didn't die. It's sad when they fly into the window and don't make it. I saw a wild turkey up in the mountains here do that, but he lived... it was just... a weird sight... This bowling ball with feathers trying to go through a pane of glass... very odd. XD Not nearly as cute.

  • @yourmom295 Actually, he DID eat it. I just didn't get it on film.

  • @jacebigelow He'd be dead if he ate it. Owl's digestive system can only digest meat. Owls do not poop, they cough up the bones/fure/feathers in a neat pellet. If he ate a cracker his body would not be able to digest it.

    Some owls only eat a specific food for their entire lives. Barn owls have been knows to only eat mice and nothing else.

  • @craigerskine I've got half a mind to pull this stupid video, because every comment is regarding stupid me tossing him a stupid cracker :(

  • @jacebigelow I'm not trying to be confrontational... just stating some facts about owls... I've read a few books and worked with them at the local wildlife sanctuary.

    All species of owls eat meat... if you put a piece of raw chicken in front of a Barn owl it won't even look at it... they only eat mice. Owls have a very unique digestive system.

    You are not stupid for putting a cracker in front of it... if you've never interacted with them it's actually a decent reaction.

  • LOL his eyes were like a guy wishing 4 a dorito

  • Wow it's like a perfect owl mark on the window.

  • He's sayng:"Fucking door.. What the Fuck I can't belive I've crushed on this fucking door.. What the fuck?!?..."

  • omg i loved it i want to get one :(

  • he probably hit the glass and was in shock so it just stood there

  • @melodyyann thinking the same thing

  • .... its not an owl...its an alien..... thus the creepiness.....did anyone here even watch The Fourth Kind

  • aww that owl imprint at the end is so sad! haha he probably was knocked out or something! so sad! :(

  • @1989Foxy50 As written in the comments and description well over two years ago.... the cracker was used as an object for size reference. The reason that i didn't invite him in was because my dogs would have shredded him like a stuffed toy. I was touching him with the fly swatter, trying to get a response, because i thought he was stuck in between the boards. And you are correct - i DON'T know how to treat an owl over for dinner. I don't exactly keep mice on hand.

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    wow dude... mellow out. I was messing with you. I JUST found this as I was researching owls.

  • @1989Foxy50 :)

  • am i the one that find this behaviour really creepy?

  • I think they're a little scary the way the sit completely still and just staaaare.

  • Poor Owl! :(

  • Aha, so he was a bit stunned from hitting the window, that makes sense. The only other logical explanation was I "think" owls get bored sometimes, and so they make bets with their little owl friends, and go sit on the decks of people in the area, near a window of course, and see how the human responds. And also, what was the fate of the ritz cracker? Cute Dog, btw! awesome video!

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  • Very cool, thanks for sharing. Quite a few years ago one night I had a tree outside my bedroom window and a little saw whet owl perched there. My bed was right next to the window so I was only about 2 ft. away from him. They are a cute little bird ain't they?

  • Ooohhh, he's beautiful. Love his eyes.

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  • lol, the owl is staring like: "braiiiiiinnnsssss...."

    He's watching you. Better be careful. You don't know his/her plans. :]

  • jesus can its eyes get any bigger?

  • it was giving you the puppy dog face

    owl: can i come in

  • if ever an owl could imitate a cat - this one does.

  • Wow, eyes like a person. Poor little thing. Cute or not, that snapping beak sounds lethal!

  • Maybe if you put a slab of rabbit meat in front of it, it would've taken that haha

  • Okay...so the bird was really creepy in a way as it stared...almost like it was sizing you up...the window thing is amazing..and yep..a little creepy, too! LOL

  • So cute!!! I just found one of these little guys in my birch tree in Truckee Ca. He acts just like this, just watches me. They're pretty laid back.

  • little brave owl!

  • OH LOL... ok so i was watching the vid/reading comments to figure out why the owl just sat there... ok i get it now... flew into the glass and got pretty dizzy i guess... silly owl. Same thing happened to me... well with a bat. I woke up to get some water and looked down out at my deck and was like AWWWW. poked it with the back of a pen to make sure it wasn't dead... it bit the pen and flew off.

  • Aww how cute XD

    I was able to stroke a "Little" owl today.

    Your so lucky to get visits from them; i live in the country and we never see one.

    Though i seen one while I was in france; but it was at a long distance.. I could see its eyes and it was calling out (Well over 5 years ago now)

    I would say he had flown into the glass; its obviously an owl shape. Oh and what about this biscuit that u left out? Did it eat it?

    Great video; I loved watching it! XD

  • poor little owl <3

  • You have your very own version of the Shroud of Turin on your window

  • Its so freaking cute! But if this was me, at first glance it would of scared the crap out of me lol. Looks like a lil monster sitting on your porch.

  • oh shii i want to go live in some lost village too , im sick of the cities

  • oh human u don't know who u look at

    im in charge here

  • the end is why i have nightmares

  • I can't get over how cute this little one is!!!!!!!! I CAN'T! <3

  • Poor little guy was dazed from smackin' his head.

    He was too cute.

  • poor little one @ 3:45 all puffed out and beak clacking ... scared :(

  • I love that little Saw-whet owl and the expressions on it's face. Thanks for posting this vid. You made mention that you were confident it was perfectly fine after hitting the glass sliding door. I sure hope the little guy was. Take care and thanks ag

  • Thanks again was what i was trying to type.

  • That was a very cute owl. I love the expression on it's little face.

  • Wow, the owl was so cute... looked like it was stuck but then how did it free itself? Spooky... Thanks for sharing!

  • It looks like it's trying to say 'It's cold out here! Lemme in!' XD

  • omg

  • did it take the ritz cracker?

  • NOPE !

  • that's too bad ;p

  • It was not mouse flavored.

  • good point...

  • the inprint on the glass was u u made that

  • no he looks like "i gots me a crackahh" :D lol.

    am i the only one that found it a bit creeoy tho? i mean the ending?

    also sophie is very cute.

  • even if the owl was stunned i'm amazed it didn't at least move a little bit when you brought out the fly swatter!

  • I know !! I thought he had a foot stuck in the deck boards. Maybe he was too dizzy to even take a step. Talk about a failed sobriety test !!! LOL

  • im happy the owl was ok, it was soo cute!

  • hahh ... so adorable.. what a look he is giving you its like a " i swear i didnt do anything wrong.. please dont hurt me"

  • Exactly !! Too cute. Another reason I didn't want to grab it and bring it in the house for the night. They belong outdoors.

  • so cute

  • i didnt mean to be rude or anything when i said that. im sorry i said that. i didnt really think about him clawing you at all. he is really cute though

  • -laughs at its face- It Looks Funny! xD

  • man..that lil guy has no fear!!!!

    i bursted out laughing when you brought that flyswatter out!!!!!

  • I thought he was stuck in the boards !! Could not get him to move !! LOL Poor guy :)

  • question why were you awake at 2 a.m was the owl loud?

  • The dogs heard a THUMP. They started barking.

  • gosh, you won't think such a tiny owl would make thump loud enough. Nice video though, you're very brave for getting your hand with the cracker so close to it.

  • The dogs perk up at the slightest sound. Even when neighbors shut their car doors... they hear things we can't :)

  • omg its the cutest thing iv ever seen! y in the hell didnt u take the poor thing inside? i would :)

  • Because it would have bitten / clawed the hell outta me, and then my dogs would have shredded the poor little thing like a stuffed toy.

  • amazing video. must have been properly stunned if he just sat there for so long. cute little bird

  • I didn't know he was stunned until my findings the following morning.

  • The owl is so cute! He look at the cracker like "You feeding me this?"

  • Ya, polly did not want the cracker. But i had nothing else for size reference. Everyone knows how big a Ritz is.

  • That glass imprint is TOO WEIRD!! It looks like he has owl 'horns' but when he was sitting on your deck, he didn't have any!! Awsome video!!

  • I think it was the wings !! When i first saw the imprint, it startled me... it looked like the devil !!

  • What a cute little owl.

    The business with the cracker was also cute.

    As was its seeming reluctance to move, instead opting to gaze into your house's glass door, apparently, for quite some while.

  • naaaaaaaw it is adorable :D

  • lol @ the cracker

    It is cute