I mean, there are many things that are not a problem until they are observed. If one puts on their shirt inside out or forgets to bring their wallet to the store, neither of these things causes awkwardness or dilemma until those things are finally noticed after making a good bit of progress in one's day. We have all witnessed seemingly oblivious people make it through life despite their best efforts to cause themselves total ruin. Who's to say the right individual could not successfully progress for a time off a shear ledge?

Very cool!

It also would have been fun to see the owl slide into its burrow at the last minute, Indiana Jones style.

Not I, Misty Briggs is the photographer. She photographs a lot of Burrowing Owls I share here.

I only got to see one at the National Aviary. I snuck into the room as quite as can be, and was it ever mad about it! It flew up and sat on the sprinkler and gave me a glare even more distasteful than the owl in this photo.

I think the owl sees it as a win and the roadrunner would likely call it a stalemate. It's hard to get birds to agree.