Hen Reedbeds Nature Reserve
Hen Reedbeds is a blend of reedbeds, fens, dykes and pools created in 1999 to provide new breeding habitat for bittern and other wildlife.
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New cattle corral at Hen Reedbeds
Thanks to funding from Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, we now have a new cattle corral for our conservation grazing cattle at Hen Reedbeds.
Reedbed
Found between water and land, reedbeds are transitional habitats. They can form extensive swamps in lowland floodplains or fringe streams, rivers, ditches, ponds and lakes with a thin feathery…
Fat hen
Fat hen is a persistent 'weed' of fields and gardens, verges and hedgerows. But, like many of our weed species, it is a good food source for birds and insects.
Hen harrier
The hen harrier has been severely persecuted for taking game species and has suffered massive declines in numbers as a result. Thankfully, conservation projects are underway to reduce conflict…
Weekly wild news from our reserves - 16 October
This week even more fantastic fungi has been on display at our nature reserves, and Hen Reedbeds had a makeover.
Weekly wild news from our reserves, 21 August
This week, BBC Countryfile is exploring Carlton Marshes, our new ponies are settling in at Hen Reedbeds, and our bovines take a “bath”...
Wangford Quarry – pre-application position statement
Breedon Group is soon to submit a planning application to extend Wangford Quarry, situated next to our Hen Reedbeds nature reserve.
A year in the life: grey herons
Watch the triumphs and tribulations of a pair of remarkably committed grey heron parents as they attempt to raise young at Hen Reedbeds. This touching film was recorded via trail cameras over the…
12 days of a (wildlife) Christmas - Three robin hens
Christmas is in the air and here in Ipswich we’re starting to feel festive. Join our Wild Learning Officer in the run up to Christmas by celebrating some of the town’s wild spaces and species as…
Water vole
Suffolk has a great resource of potential water vole habitat with river valleys, coastal grazing marshes, ponds, ditches, lakes, fens, and reedbeds.
Purple-loosestrife
A tall plant, purple-loosestrife can form dense stands of bright purple flower spikes in wet habitats like reedbeds, fens and marshes.