barnie

A barn owl or barn swallow.

Bonnot found that the "area covered by the bed was three inches deep with feathers, wings, and bodies" of the hapless birds. The barnies had so little difficulty catching them that in many instances they simply bit off the heads

As they do they're encountering barn swallows, and the meeker barnies are suffering.

A barn occupant.

The 'Barnies' as they were more commonly known, were, in the main, deserving pensioners

former Barnies, like me, knew very well that serious students — if they would work their butts off — could probably learn more of what the commercial theatre was really about in a summer at the Barn than they could in all four years