Thursday June 20th. A very murky morning weather-wise… Second day on the trot that I’ve gone to check the 5 ponies on Chailey Common and after another couple of hours of walking, given up again. An hour later, received a message to say they had apparently gone through an open gate into an adjoining field. No wonder that I had no joy!
Herd 1 of 32 ponies were very easy to find and check on Ashdown. Moments after I arrived, a Chinook helicopter flew over at a height of about 100 feet, directly above where they were grazing, the ponies hurriedly gathering into a group.