After I thought I heard a snatch of notes from a fieldfare last week, today, I saw a flock of some 30-40 fieldfare fly overhead in the same vicinity of Ashdown.
Checked three groups of ponies today. Had to be rather more proactive – in fact tracking on Chailey Common, as here they are very difficult to locate due to the tall bracken. Heard a couple of dogs barking a couple of hundred metres away over my shoulder. A few minutes later, heard a couple of possible pony whinnyings from the same area; changed direction and there in a patch of trees, there they were. Looking out for sounds, fresh hoof-prints, paid off!