Brian Bevan / Pair of Reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) feeding young at nest, Bedfordshire, England, UK, July.

Ingo Arndt / Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) nest in Senckenberg Natural Hystory Collection Dresden, Germany.

Bence Mate / Great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) feeding Cuckoo chick (Cuculus canorus) Pusztaszer, Kiskunsagi National Park, Hungary, June.

Ross Hoddinott / Common darter dragonflies (Sympetrum striolatum) two females resting on reed, Dunsdon Nature Reserve, Devon, UK. August.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) with out of focus Lesser flamingos (Phoenicopterus minor) standing behind, Lake Nakuru, Kenya

Theo Bosboom / Emerald damselflies (Lestes sponsa) mating on the reed along a fen, Hondeven, east Holland, August

Bence Mate / Common cuckoo chick (Cuculus canorus) begging for food from Great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) foster parent, Pusztaszer, Kiskunsagi National Park, Hungary

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Abstract patterns in Phragmites reedbed. Scotland, November.

David Tipling / 2020VISION / Phragmites reeds (Phragmites australis) at dawn in late autumn sun, Woodwalton Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK, October. Did you know? Woodwalton Fen is an example of ancient fen, most of which disappeared...

Grzegorz Lesniewski / Common Reed (Phragmites australis) on fire. Biebrza National Park, Biebrza marshes, Poland, July.

Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / Common reed (Phragmites australis) in morning light, Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK, May

Steve Nicholls / Huge flock of Common starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) flying in to roost over the reed beds at dusk, Ham Wall nature reserve, Somerset, UK, January