I noticed several seagulls hunkered down on the ice coating the local pond this morning and started wondering...
As they approach from above, are the birds able to tell the pond has frozen over or are they taken by surprise when their feet encounter a solid surface rather than water?
Is the seagull experience similar to the surprise and embarrassment a person experiences when they walk face first into a newly cleaned plate glass window?
I can imagine the male seagull pulling the tip of his beak out of the ice, fluffing his plumage indignantly, and saying to his partner: Honest Henrietta, there was water here just the other day. I was swimming and snacking on minnows.
And of course Henrietta would be hiding a smirk behind an outstretched wing and thinking: Why can males never admit they're lost?
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