"Oh, you know, I can just sense..." He's never spent much time in the owlery before, not having an owl and all. And now that he's here it's a little intimidating. He backs up by a few steps, so he's not doing a lot of saving.

"...These things. Sure are a lot of birds here."

He tries to make that sound more casual, less panicky, on the good chance they could all taste fear just as well as the birdseed he tosses over to the side, so they'd go swarm that.