reed bed

Bittern Botaurus stellaris cut to white showing cryptic colouring and large beak and legs

Giant reed Arundo donax showing growth habit and flowering head of spikelets

Common reed Phragmites australis growing from rhizome with individual spikelet detail and ligule of hairs

Watercolour reed bed showing the layers of reeds with trees and shrubs behind and distant hills

Landscape of a reed bed with a cross section of the water in the forground and showing fish and amphibians living in the water, along with a close up of some microscopic aquatic invertebrates; in the sky hobby hunt for dragonfly and damselfly and swallows fly; otter, bittern, and water vole hide in the margins […]