Ian Lambert
A Warm Glow
A setting sun gives a warm glow to the sky over the Ribble Estuary near Lytham in Lancashire.
Over half of the Ribble Estuary is a National Nature Reserve, it contains extensive areas of mud and sandflats and one of the largest single areas of saltmarsh in England. In the summer the saltmarshes support large numbers of breeding birds such as the Black Headed Gull, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Common Tern and Redshank. Skylark, Meadow Pipit and Linnet nest in significant numbers on the grazing marsh. The reserve has also been declared a Ramsar site and Special Protection Area (SPA), providing an important link in the chain of wetland sites in Western Europe. It supports over 100,000 ducks, geese and swans, in winter the site is home to around 150,000 waders and it is an internationally important refuge for 16 bird species.
A Warm Glow
A setting sun gives a warm glow to the sky over the Ribble Estuary near Lytham in Lancashire.
Over half of the Ribble Estuary is a National Nature Reserve, it contains extensive areas of mud and sandflats and one of the largest single areas of saltmarsh in England. In the summer the saltmarshes support large numbers of breeding birds such as the Black Headed Gull, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Common Tern and Redshank. Skylark, Meadow Pipit and Linnet nest in significant numbers on the grazing marsh. The reserve has also been declared a Ramsar site and Special Protection Area (SPA), providing an important link in the chain of wetland sites in Western Europe. It supports over 100,000 ducks, geese and swans, in winter the site is home to around 150,000 waders and it is an internationally important refuge for 16 bird species.