| Borland takes me on a tour of the back end of the distillery, where the waste water is filtered through reed beds full of bulrushes and lilies. |
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| Tiny, 3-month-old Moses lies in his basket of papyrus and pitch, resting in the bulrushes, just at the point of discovery. |
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| At first its banks are lined with campion, vetch, roses, bulrushes and meadowsweet and later with poplar trees heavy with overhanging mistletoe. |
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| David's abandonment in the forest primeval is also his deliverance from destruction, Moses left in the bulrushes. |
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| Studying it, I finally grasped the connection between the story of the bulrushes and Moses' death before entering the Promised Land. |
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| Cattails and bulrushes will replace the invasive phragmites that have choked the waterways. |
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| Their houses are constructed of bulrushes, weeds and packed mud, with separate sleeping platforms for each member of the family. |
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| A glossy ibis waded between the bulrushes and black swallows dipped in and out of the water. |
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| These are built of stalks and leaves of bulrushes, flag, and reed-mace and reed. |
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| Foot by foot, inch by inch, it was coming closer to the quiet back water where I was standing waist deep among the bulrushes. |
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| Norma Keane studied water flowers such as white water lilies and bulrushes while Darren Roache enjoyed completing his work on crustaceans. |
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| Canvasbacks and redheads will nest over water using emergent plants, such as cattails and bulrushes. |
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| Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud. |
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| The most frequently emergent macrophytes used are reeds, bulrushes, cattails, rushes and sedges. |
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| The sediment load is settling out with the passage of time and the purifying influence of cattails and bulrushes. |
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| Egrets, terns, mallards, pelicans, eagles, tundra swans, and herons browsed amid thickets of 10-foot-tall bulrushes known as tule. |
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| Although there were abundant lakes and ponds on the islands, they would have been vegetated chiefly by bulrushes. |
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| Nests are made of grass, and are usually lashed to cattails, bulrushes, or other emergent vegetation close to the water. |
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| Or climate warming could be accelerating the rate at which marsh plants such as cattails, bulrushes, and sedges invade ponds and convert them to meadows. |
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| Most plant dry mass in the diet of Barrow's Goldeneyes consisted of seeds of submergent and emergent macrophytes, particularly those of pondweeds, mare's tails, and bulrushes. |
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| If bulrushes or cattails are not available, muskrats dig burrows in firm banks of mossy soil or clay. |
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| South of Île aux Boeufs, Broad-fruited bur-reed and bulrushes have been gradually supplanted by the Narrowleaved cattail. |
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| Its name may refer to Tuilla, a local Indian leader, or to the abundant tules, or bulrushes, that grew near the local springs. |
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| They also talked about arsenic and asked the community to send samples of moose meat and bulrushes to Edmonton for analysis. |
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| If society feels that bulrushes, frogs and ducks are valuable then show us that value in dollars or the land will be growing something that pays. |
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| Canvasbacks commonly build their nests near open water in the shallows of large sloughs, or marshy areas, among cattails, bulrushes, and reeds. |
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| Flycatchers and kingfishers are now found in the bulrushes, and osprey patrol the creek regularly. |
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| These geese, which were part of a breeding population, generally do not feed on bulrushes. |
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| Choose a site in a marsh fringed by cat-tails and bulrushes, on the edge of open water 1 ' to 4' deep. |
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| If you don't have bulrushes growing nearby or don't have permission to cut some, then you can try this craft using construction paper. |
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| Compact mounds of partially dried and decayed plant material can frequently be seen scattered among the cattails and bulrushes. |
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| With only a hectare of open water and over 50 green hectares of cattails, bulrushes and reeds, it's actually a marsh. |
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| Typically, wetlands are occupied for the most part by water-loving vegetation such as willows, sedges, cattails, bulrushes and mosses. |
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| For example, cattails, bulrushes, cordgrass, sphagnum moss, bald cypress, willows, mangroves, sedges, rushes, arrowheads, and water plantains usually occur in wetlands. |
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| The emergent plants are cattails, bulrushes, and water plantains. |
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| Cattails and bulrushes are especially efficient at absorbing large quantities of nitrogen and phosphorous, substances easily transported in runoff. |
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| The female builds the nest, which is a bulky, open cup made of leaves, stems, and grass, and lashed to cattails, bulrushes, or other plants growing over the water. |
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| This new king became known as the Pharaoh of the Oppression, and it was during his time that the story of the infant Moses in the bulrushes is set. |
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| Surrounded by sea and sky, swept by salty winds and sun rays, it's a dichotomy of soaring mountains and deep fiords, rainforests of conifer, beech and carpets of fern, marshlands of sprawling yellow broom, flax and bulrushes. |
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| Isolated populations occur in wetlands that afford cover in the form of papyrus, reeds, bulrushes, or sedges on the borders of major rivers and lakes in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| The legumes spread, while sedges, bulrushes, and ferns continued their ascent. |
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| The Lesser Snow Goose feeds on marshland plants like sedges, forbs, and bulrushes found in the intertidal marshes, as well as pasture grasses and waste grain from farmers' fields during their migration. |
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| A wetland is any land where the water table stands at or above the land surface for at least part of the year, and contains vegetation associated with wetlands such as bulrushes, sedges, cattails, etc. |
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| Walk around the main spring past reeds, bulrushes and paperbark trees. |
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| They wove mats from the leaves of bulrushes, which they used for the walls of their summer homes, as mats on the floors and to cushion the bottom of their canoes. |
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| There are cattails, bulrushes, willows and poplar trees. |
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| She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. |
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| Redheads commonly breed on larger sloughs and marshes surrounded by cattails, bulrushes, and reeds, although nesting also occurs on smaller ponds. |
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| They are built of rough sticks, covered with bulrushes or grass, in such a manner as to completely protect the inhabitants from all the inclemencies of the weather. |
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| A solitary waterhen swam among the few remaining reeds and bulrushes. |
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