No owls for me, but i've had a near crash with a mother and baby dear jumping out in front of me. i also had a very large beetle (a black root borer to be exact) hit me in the chest when i was going about 20mph. i thought my buddy's bike kicked up a rock into me. i picked up the little bugger and got him to cling onto my handlebars for a while but he eventually fell off and i assume died.