Surfing Waves

This is not that big of a deal.....but I thought it was kind of different. These birds were flying about a foot off the water,,,I didn't photoshop them in,,,I wonder what this guy was thinking..

wuhey, birds and surfing, two of my favourite things! (tho are you sure you didn't photoshop 'em BDW? They don't look quite 'there' if you know what i mean?!)

Me smells photoshop...

BrownDogWilson wrote:I didn't photoshop them in,,,I wonder what this guy was thinking

Not very trusting are you willz

BTW, thanks for the image emails BDW

I swear,,,it's real! If I was gonna PS some birds in,,,they would be big birds,,,or maybe even Big Bird himself,,,,,not a bunch of little whatever those are's! I'll have more big images on the way for you too,,,I just got get to them..

same birds,,,different spot

I think it might be Momentum that has the closing credits of birds whizzing around the lineup in the evening.

lolol.. BDW has been posting for a while now guyz and all his photos are the real deal

.. thats the first time ive seen a flock of anything that low to the sea without it being dive bombing fleshing noisy seagulls or summat

nice one dog'

surf patrol wrote:

BrownDogWilson wrote:I didn't photoshop them in,,,I wonder what this guy was thinking

Not very trusting are you willz

BTW, thanks for the image emails BDW

Lol, I know but that first snap DOES look 'shopped, doesnt it? But I can belive the second one, weird stuff!

I'd guess at some kind of tern?

we get seagulls here, hnot in flocks liek that but usually individually, they ride along in front of the waves, i guess they can ride the updraft of air as the wave moves along. They dont do any tricks tho, just cruise in a straight line along in front of the curl, kinda like airborne longboarders.

we have some big seabird that likes to glide really low and scare the xxxxx out of surfers ih hawaii too...

I am from the same area as BDW and can attest to the fact birds that fly that low over the water at many local beaches.

birds do fly really low, i think the picture isnt photoshoped even if it looks like it.

am from the same area as BDW and can attest to the fact birds that fly that low over the water at many local beaches

I have seen pelicans do that a few times

isaluteyou wrote:

am from the same area as BDW and can attest to the fact birds that fly that low over the water at many local beaches

I have seen pelicans do that a few times

Yeah. It happens all the time here. Talk about big birds.

Two seagulls flew across in front of me yesterday about 2 inches off the water, when i was paddling for a wave. I thought then that it looked really cool.

a few weesk ago there were dead pigeons floating in the water at b'mouth, i always did wonder why it was called pigeon until then

GowerCharger wrote:we get seagulls here, hnot in flocks liek that but usually individually, they ride along in front of the waves, i guess they can ride the updraft of air as the wave moves along. They dont do any tricks tho, just cruise in a straight line along in front of the curl, kinda like airborne longboarders.

There's got to be some turbulence caused by the wave that gives them lift kind of like a thermal would.

I've seen seagulls on Puget Sound follow in the "wake" just above a ferry and go clear across without flapping their wings once.

Birds on the surf

I usually like to see this kind of bird in the lineup..













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