“Discharges of heavy metals into the environment are never good, especially when those metals are radioactive.”

Discharges into a RAMSAR site, for God's sake.

#Environment
#RibbleEstuary

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/revealed-uranium-from-uk-nuclear-fuel-factory-dumped-into-protected-ribble-estuary

Revealed: three tonnes of uranium legally dumped in protected English estuary in nine years

Exclusive: expert raises concerns over quantities allowed to be discharged from nuclear fuel factory near Preston

The Guardian
Banks Marsh

Pink-footed geese, Banks Marsh It was a bright sunny morning so I set out for a proper walk. I havered between a visit to Marshside or a vis...

Wild goose chase

Pink-footed geese, Banks Marsh A ropey old nights sleep invited me to have a long lie-in then get up for a nap but the morning was more than...

Cormorant in the Ribble estuary off Lytham in July 2013. #Photography #PhotographyOnMastodon #Lytham #RibbleEstuary #Cormorant #Ornithology #Birds #Waterfowl
Skeins of Pink-footed geese are flying over now seeking the shelter of our shores for the winter season, read more here; #geese, #Ornithology, #autumn, #migration, #Martinmere, #Lancashire, #Ribbleestuary, #Morecambebay,
https://northwestnatureandhistory.wordpress.com/2023/10/04/pink-footed-geese/
Pink-footed Geese

The Pink-footed Goose, Anser brachyrhynchus visits us from October through to March and usually associates with other geese, often Greylag and Whitefronted. Every year over 400,000 fly here and hea…

Northwest Nature and History