This one reminded me of the pelican we 'caught' up on the forward main FC director between Hawaii and Guam. Like this owl, seems he was just tired, and hitched a ride for a while. He (?) flew off sometime that night, but left us something as payment.
I tried to watch one episode and it had so little to do with carriers that I turned it off.
LOL. Cute story, brit.
I was on an LST when we took a Seabee group from Okinawa to Guadalcanal after the Solomons had been hit by a big cyclone. A pair of little sparrow-like birds had been hanging around the ship while we were inport Okinawa and when we left they came along. The deck guys would put out pans of water and food for them. It was about a two week transit and they ended up riding all the way to Guadalcanal, where they took off and we never saw them again.