I just wanna say that I liked the mechanic. Fast movement is very satisfying. But I think one of the issues is that the level is small for the movement. When the movement changes to swooping and the model changes the player has very little time to direct the movement - you have some intuition how the owl flies by default and mid movement it changes -which is cool, BUT your brain has like a tenth of a second to familiarise themselves with how the movement works.
But hey. Great mechanic nonetheless, its just a skill issue :P