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Reedbeds, pools and the birds that live in them

Hours in a hide at the water's edge. Kingfishers on bulrush heads, reed warblers threading the stems, coots raising chicks on a green pool, lapwing and sandpiper working the margins — the slow, repeating life of fresh water.

Little grebe on still dark water
Little grebe wrestling a catch
Coot feeding its chick on a shaded pool
Lapwing at the water's edge with its reflection
Two coots fighting in a spray of water
Kingfisher perched on a bulrush head
Heron silhouette wading at golden hour
Great crested grebe silhouette on golden water
Sedge warbler half hidden among reeds
Kingfisher among golden reeds
Kingfisher calling among seeding bulrushes
Kingfisher perched on a bulrush seedhead
Kingfisher on a Bulrush
Sedge warbler singing among golden reeds
Common kingfisher perched in bare winter branches
Sedge warbler singing among reeds
Reed warbler peering between reed stems
Reed warbler beside cattail seedheads
Reed warbler with nesting material among reeds
Duck flapping its wings dry after bathing
Grey wagtail among streambed boulders
Reed warbler among cattails
Juvenile little grebe on sunlit green water
Common sandpiper through foreground branches
Common sandpiper hidden in stream-side greenery
Mallards among summer reeds
Grey heron standing in tall reeds
Mallards resting on a fallen branch
Coot with a chick on a green pool
Moorhen crossing a pool of dappled light
Coot feeding on a green pool
Coot and chick on a green pool
Two mallards clashing in a burst of spray
Great crested grebe on calm blue water

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