It was no swan song.
A wake surfer got thrown into the water when an angry swan snuck up on him in a hilarious moment caught on video.
Sean Conway was being pulled across Lake Austin, Texas, by a speedboat when the large bird attacked him from behind.
Video shows the territorial swan racing across the water to catch up with Conway, pecking at his feet and standing on the board.
Caught off guard, Conway can be seen trying to shoo the swan away before losing the battle and falling into the water.
“My buddies Chris and Rick invited me to wake surf in the morning, it was only my fifth time wake surfing,” Conway told Newsflash.
The novice wake surfer said he had only just started when his friends spotted the swan, yelling, “Oh my god!”
“I had just gotten up on the board and was riding for 15 seconds when my friends’ eyes got really big and they became frazzled, like I’d already taken a hard fall but I’m still on the board, so what’s up?”
Conway said the bird was near the shore when his friends spotted it and started to fly toward them, which is how they had enough time to record the scene.
He compared the experience to a “helicopter landing right behind me.”
Before the swan pummeled him, he wasn’t sure if swans could really fly.
“I had been curious if swans actually fly as they are massive and pterodactyl-like,” Conway told Newsflash. “Now I know the answer is certainly yes.”
Conway accepted his loss to the frantic swan and conceded it was Mother Nature giving him a sign.
“After crashing, I jumped in the boat. The swan won, and I’m okay with it,” Conway said.
“I think it’s a positive that Mother Nature gives us a healthy poke to remind us we need to preserve this planet.”
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