Hannah Baillie had never seen an owl in the wild until last Monday evening, when she was running along Halifax's B.L.T. trail. 

She noticed the bird swoop onto a tree and was close enough to snap a photo. Half an hour later, she felt something hit the back of her head. 

"I quickly turned around and realized that there was a really large bird behind me," Baillie told CBC's Information Morning. "It … felt like someone with really long nails had grabbed my ponytail."