Thursday 6th July

 The ponies were close to the path, grazing about 100 m along from the gate nearer the M3.  Although I was a few yards away, they wanted to check me out every bit as much as I wanted the check them.  They then followed me towards the gate, and I left them by the corral.  They were a bit troubled by flies and there were a couple of large horse flies about, although I couldn't see any obvious bites or sore patches.  Water level fine.

A little ragwort may not be a bad thing - at least for this cinnabar moth caterpillar, close to the gate.  The ponies had clearly left it alone.