It is unclear how or why this happened and it might be a sign of the apocalypse, but mere days after Jochen’s post about surfing grebes a video of surfing geese has surfaced on the interwebs. Weird.
And those geese are alright, right? I mean, it doesn’t seem like they would choose to be surfing…
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
On the topic of surfin’ geese, may I humbly refer you to this post:
http://tai-haku.blogspot.com/2010/01/point-break-point-brent.html?
Next, road runners skateboarding?
We made the wave for surfing and the geese watched all of us have fun on it. It was quite on purpose as it is much easier to paddle downstream and miss the wave than to paddle upstream and catch it.
http://www.riverrestoration.org/video/geesediscovery/index.html