Driftwood? a dog?, no, it's a deer!

From IJReview,

Tyler Balak was surfing a few hundred feet off the shore in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, when he noticed something strange in the water.

The Virginian-Pilot reports that beachgoers feared it was a shark; others thought it was driftwood. As Balak paddled closer and closer, he noticed it had a head with ears. His initial thought was that it was a dog.

It was only when he got within a few feet that he realized:

“Oh my God, it’s a deer!”

The baby deer was struggling to keep its head above water. Balak quickly took the fawn in his arms where it “went limp”, and swam back to shore, wrapping the tiny deer in a towel.

Balak contacted Hatteras Island Wildlife Rehabilitation, an animal rescue shelter a few miles away where they took the deer in. Hours after the deer arrived and passed a thorough physical examination, caregivers at the shelter thought it was healthy enough to be released back into the wild.

Read more here.