About 4 years ago I was walking the grounds of a rustic resort with my (at the time) girlfriend. A Snowy landed on a roof near us.
Damned thing was the largest bird I’d ever seen that close up.
Owl say!
Had one fly up my street in north San Antonio 10 years ago. Still before dawn, I was seated, cooling down after a run, this thing had a HUGE wingspan, about 10 feet off the street, veered over toward me, then away. It was absolutely silent, no beat of wings or anything. Eerie but beautiful. Glad I wasn’t a field mouse that day!