An owl appears in the nearest unoccupied space to you, and it is telepathically linked to you. It does its best to obey your commands. You can command it to fly or move up to a mile away, but it cannot attack. While you are linked with the owl, you can use a bonus action to start seeing and hearing what it sees and hears (gaining its darkvision), but you are blind and deaf in regards to your own senses. You can use another bonus action to return to your own senses. It will simply follow you around if you are not telling it to do anything.
While you are linked to its senses, you have full control over the owl's movements (as if you had become the owl), but you are still not able to attack. The spell ends if the owl dies, and it will simply fade away, leaving no trace that it was ever there.
The owl can carry up to 5 pounds of materials or equipment. A clever use for this spell would be to deliver a scroll or a message.
At Higher Levels. For each level above 1st, the spell lasts for another hour.
* - (An owl's feather.)