It’s not every day someone hears about an owl attack in Jacksonville, but one Avondale jogger said it happened to her twice in just 48 hours.

Mary Kay Mandeville told News4JAX it all started on Sunday evening, when she was jogging along Challenge Avenue and noticed an owl flying from tree to tree.

“I paid no attention. I kept jogging. I jogged about five blocks further, turned around to come back past that same site where I had seen him flying, and I was hit from behind by him, and I felt his talons in my hair, which pulled a little bit,” Mandeville said.

Mandeville said she was shocked.

“Very surprised, and I was a little bit scared,” Mandeville said.

Two nights later, she was attacked again.

This time, she said she was attacked at the intersection of Remington Street and Talbot Ave

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