Ribble Estuary: Alien invasion or something a little more terrestrial?

Travelling along Southport’s Coastal Road at Marshside, eagle-eyed folks could perhaps have been forgiven for wondering what the strange cloud of distant UFOs over the River Ribble’s estuary actually consisted of. Had ET landed at Blackpool or…?

At first glance it seemed like the mystery objects were a skein of large geese, but a closer look with the camera revealed the truth…

I got the super-zoom out to discover more about these distant flying objects. They appeared to be kites. A quick Google search soon revealed that this was indeed a kite festival at Lytham St Annes.