Cannedpears Posted September 15, 2011 #1 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Last December i took a cruise on the Voyager going out of Galveston. About 500 miles out i was eating at Johnny Rockets and noticed an Owl flying around the ship in broad daylight! Here's the vid i took of the incident. Has anyone ever seen that before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruisenouvelle Posted September 15, 2011 #2 Share Posted September 15, 2011 How cool! Wonder if it was disoriented somehow, or just knew that there was food of some sort on the ship :confused: ...thanks for sharing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BillOh Posted September 15, 2011 #3 Share Posted September 15, 2011 I've wondered about that happening with birds and big ships. Owls, I believe our primarily nocturnal, I could see one finding a safe spot in a quiet cubby hole one morning being caught away from its normal home and then getting chased out of it later and not being able to make it to land. I've seen small birds hanging out around the outdoor eating areas scavenging food from diners while ships leave port, but most of them leave before the ship gets too far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregg37 Posted September 15, 2011 #4 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Yup. Last year on the Triumph we had several visitors. The most interesting was this pelican who sat on the front tower all day. I only saw him leave early in the morning when he would fly off and hover over the water looking for fish. I went out and watched him every morning of the 7 day cruise. We only noticed these little birds (a butt-load of them) as we approached Roatan. Not sure if they stayed around the whole time, but they were brave (and very tired) and would land right on the railing to rest. After Roatan, I found this hawk looking thing checking out the main bridge. I saw him again on one of the last days of the cruise as well. Maybe they were just following me???? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowshoeCat Posted September 15, 2011 #5 Share Posted September 15, 2011 The pictures are beautiful and heartbreaking. The seabirds should be okay. But the owl? I picture them in trees, not over open water. He may have been an inadvertent stowaway, snoozing somewhere on the ship, then waking up to find himself far out at sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazoo Posted September 15, 2011 #6 Share Posted September 15, 2011 There was an owl rescued from Oasis last september. It was stowed away on the mini-putt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisecriticmember Posted September 15, 2011 #7 Share Posted September 15, 2011 The owl had a message for Harry Potter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smltwngrl76 Posted September 15, 2011 #8 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Cannedpears--that is really, really cool!!! Strange and random question, but had you lost anyone close to you recently? I had a crazy incident with an owl that happened shortly after my stepmother passed away. It was so odd that I just had to look up the significance of owls, and now nobody will ever be able to tell me that it was not a sign from my stepmother. And our family had several other owl-related things happen shortly thereafter. I know some folks will think I'm nutting for thinking this way, but owls will always have a special meaning to me now. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BecciBoo Posted September 15, 2011 #9 Share Posted September 15, 2011 This little guy actually let me pick him up out of a plastic shrub on the Liberty OTS pre inaugural. Since then I have noticed these tropical finches on many cruises. Once outside the window in Windjammer, we saw that the crew had obviously set out a plate of crumbs and a cup of wate for one who had set up residence in a kind of crows nest thingy. A couple weeks ago on Carnival Ecstasy there were several finches and one hummingbird that we actually saw quite clearly as he flew up to a woman having breakfast in the grill area to investigate her tropical blouse. We all sat there with our mouths open. She said "Was that a hummingbird!" It was. She was about 2 ft from us. Didn't have a camera, drat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleeky Posted September 15, 2011 #10 Share Posted September 15, 2011 A Hoopoe bird landed on the Celebrity Summit on a greek islands cruise. I was the only person who was interested. I watched it for a while as it rested on the rail. We weren't too far from land so I'm sure it would have been fine. I have photos but can't work out how to get it to appear on here:o, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyriecat Posted September 15, 2011 #11 Share Posted September 15, 2011 I had a bat flying around the balcony my last cruise. We had stopped in Costa Rica that day but were at sea. I had gone onto the balcony after dark to look at the stars and the bat came swooping by. I'm sure he was attracted to the bugs circling some of the ship lights and not to me, but I was still hesitant to be out there with it flying around. We had two sea days after that and I didn't see it again. I don't know if it tried to head back to land or if it found another area of the ship with a better bug population than my balcony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannedpears Posted September 15, 2011 Author #12 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Cannedpears--that is really, really cool!!! Strange and random question, but had you lost anyone close to you recently? I had a crazy incident with an owl that happened shortly after my stepmother passed away. It was so odd that I just had to look up the significance of owls, and now nobody will ever be able to tell me that it was not a sign from my stepmother. And our family had several other owl-related things happen shortly thereafter. I know some folks will think I'm nutting for thinking this way, but owls will always have a special meaning to me now. :) Hmm...now that i think about it, I did lose a bunch of dead presidents in the casino the night before. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannedpears Posted September 15, 2011 Author #13 Share Posted September 15, 2011 The owl had a message for Harry Potter. lol! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smltwngrl76 Posted September 16, 2011 #14 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Hmm...now that i think about it, I did lose a bunch of dead presidents in the casino the night before. :rolleyes: Ahhh, yes. I knew I should have just left it at "cool video." :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannedpears Posted September 16, 2011 Author #15 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Ahhh, yes. I knew I should have just left it at "cool video." :rolleyes: hahaha! No one thinks you're nutty btw. Thanks for sharing your cool owl story. I have never heard of anything like that. I'll keep an eye out for them for now on. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smltwngrl76 Posted September 16, 2011 #16 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Oh! haha. Well thank you! Geez I need to not be so sensitive about my nuttiness! LOL :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannedpears Posted September 16, 2011 Author #17 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Oh! haha. Well thank you! Geez I need to not be so sensitive about my nuttiness! LOL :D We're all a little nutty... It's the extra crunchy ones you have to worry about.:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwolfe Posted September 16, 2011 #18 Share Posted September 16, 2011 We're all a little nutty... It's the extra crunchy ones you have to worry about.:D Did someone say "extra crunchy"? I resemble that remark! Neat video, that looked very much like a barn owl. Seems to me like it might have found a spot to hide out in the aft superstructure. Wonder how long it stayed with the ship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannedpears Posted September 16, 2011 Author #19 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Did someone say "extra crunchy"? I resemble that remark! Neat video, that looked very much like a barn owl. Seems to me like it might have found a spot to hide out in the aft superstructure. Wonder how long it stayed with the ship? HA! I was curious too. So i asked the experts: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=211264 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcca2 Posted September 16, 2011 #20 Share Posted September 16, 2011 This is not great picture but we had these little birds ride with us on the aft of the Rhapsody after we did the Panama Canal. It seemed like they wanted a ride and many of them were found dead the following day..........Very sad. http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2782949800081263430fqFHub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannedpears Posted September 16, 2011 Author #21 Share Posted September 16, 2011 This is not great picture but we had these little birds ride with us on the aft of the Rhapsody after we did the Panama Canal. It seemed like they wanted a ride and many of them were found dead the following day..........Very sad. http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2782949800081263430fqFHub Aww, poor things. I didn't know Royal Caribbean executed passengers without a sea pass. :p Jk that's kinda depressing.:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannedpears Posted September 16, 2011 Author #22 Share Posted September 16, 2011 How cool! Wonder if it was disoriented somehow, or just knew that there was food of some sort on the ship :confused: ...thanks for sharing that. well... the food is good. Thanks for watching! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BillOh Posted September 16, 2011 #23 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Cannedpears--that is really, really cool!!! Strange and random question, but had you lost anyone close to you recently? I had a crazy incident with an owl that happened shortly after my stepmother passed away. It was so odd that I just had to look up the significance of owls, and now nobody will ever be able to tell me that it was not a sign from my stepmother. And our family had several other owl-related things happen shortly thereafter. I know some folks will think I'm nutting for thinking this way, but owls will always have a special meaning to me now. :) Normally I would laugh at this and perhaps even consider a little ridicule. ;) However, my mother in law (a dear woman) had a Monarch butterfly land on her nose at least 3 times that I witnessed in my years of knowing her. Now I've never seen that happen to anyone anywhere. Now after she died, a few times Monarch's have followed us around, I think of her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannedpears Posted September 16, 2011 Author #24 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Normally I would laugh at this and perhaps even consider a little ridicule. ;) However, my mother in law (a dear woman) had a Monarch butterfly land on her nose at least 3 times that I witnessed in my years of knowing her. Now I've never seen that happen to anyone anywhere. Now after she died, a few times Monarch's have followed us around, I think of her. That's awesome, I wonder what it means if an owl lands on your nose? trip to the emergency room probably.:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleeky Posted September 16, 2011 #25 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Love this thread, but hope it doesn't encourage anyone to try "owling" on their balcony..... (Google it if you haven't seen this yet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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