MIKE DILGER’S WILDLIFE WATCHING
Forming either extensive swamps in lowland floodplains, or feathery fringes along the margins of rivers, ditches, lakes and reservoirs, reedbeds are highly unusual in that the habitat is almost entirely composed of one species – common reed. Looking verdant all summer, the plant’s green coloration will by now have given way to the distinctive golden-yellow hues of late autumn and winter.
Reedbeds bridge that gap
