Weekly Photo Challenge – Together

Stingrays swimming together. Captured this image from the Gulf State Park Pier, Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Dark blotches on the stingrays’ backs is due to refraction of sunlight entering the water.

 

 

Previous Weekly Photo Challenges

Sun

Two Subjects

Nature

Great Blue Heron Dining

You may notice the Great Blue Heron is on a pier. Also, there were many people fishing (camera left) on the same pier which is located on Dauphin Island, Alabama.

What attracted my attention was people catching fish were giving some of them to the Great Blue Heron.

Some may argue that feeding a wild bird is never a good idea, because then it becomes too dependent on people for food.

However, their actions allowed me to capture the images below:

 

 

Other Sea Birds

Pelican Drying its Feathers

Pelican Claiming a New Perch

Seagull Taking Flight