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Water rail Water rails are shy, reedbed dwelling bird which becomes more visible in winter as they skitter across frozen ponds.
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After 15 minutes' cycling the orchards give way to marsh and reedbeds.
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Their winter murmuration takes place over reedbeds established to treat water from old mine workings.
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The maple and the birch conceal no dryads, and Pan has never been heard amongst these reedbeds.
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It says: Reedbeds are dry and clogged with brambles; heathlands have vanished as scrub begins to take over.
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Even London has new wild habitats, such as Woodberry Wetlands in north London, where bittern lurk in new reedbeds.
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Reedbeds are forming naturally, and rare marshland birds, from the bearded tit to the bittern, are recolonising the region.
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Here they perform their spectacular aerobatic displays before plunging down into the reedbeds, where they are safe from predators for the night.
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Somewhere in the reedbeds, there's a male bittern; his blowing-on-a-milk-bottle call is a spring sound just as rich and strange as this constantly surprising landscape.