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glenatronSo the house where we're living now is at one end of the Devils Punchbowl, a large nature reserve encompassing a big valley and the surrounding heath. The ponies live at the other end of the valley, so it's not an arduous walk between them. Particularly for me as the heathland is currently being managed by a herd of Exmoor Ponies...
It was quite dark and dull, being a rainy bank holiday kind of a day, so most of my pictures are a bit camera-shakey or the ponies were blurred in movement, but this came out ok.
The guy on the left was a tiny bit itchy I think. There were seven ponies in the little herd I spent a while watching and then I met a second group of five heading down to rendezvous with them a little further on.
I like these little guys, Exmoors always seem to me as though they should be very primitive horses, not so different from the ones you see in pictures from Lascaux
This little inquisitive little guy came up to about ten feet away from me- I think he was so unaccustomed to humans who just stay still and don't do anything that he was intrigued. Then he went off to demand grooming off one of the other ponies, who wasn't really interested so he chased them off instead. Because it's public land the herd is all geldings, so you don't get the interactions you would from a mixed herd, but there is clearly a lot of conversation going on, in between the grazing.
It was quite dark and dull, being a rainy bank holiday kind of a day, so most of my pictures are a bit camera-shakey or the ponies were blurred in movement, but this came out ok.
The guy on the left was a tiny bit itchy I think. There were seven ponies in the little herd I spent a while watching and then I met a second group of five heading down to rendezvous with them a little further on.
I like these little guys, Exmoors always seem to me as though they should be very primitive horses, not so different from the ones you see in pictures from Lascaux
This little inquisitive little guy came up to about ten feet away from me- I think he was so unaccustomed to humans who just stay still and don't do anything that he was intrigued. Then he went off to demand grooming off one of the other ponies, who wasn't really interested so he chased them off instead. Because it's public land the herd is all geldings, so you don't get the interactions you would from a mixed herd, but there is clearly a lot of conversation going on, in between the grazing.