3 red kites soaring high above Deacon Hill proved a lot easier to spot than 3 more substantial and earthbound ponies. A walk along the top path proved fruitless, and so I went down and took the path which rises slowly back to the corral. Again, no success. I went down to the bottom, and headed eastwards, and nearly at the end, there they were, where I had been about 40 minutes earlier, much more interested in food than my arrival. They looked fine, if a bit comical with burrs stuck between their ears. Troughs both full.
There were birds around today, maybe thanks to the better weather - redwings (no doubt competing with the ponies for hawthorn berries), long-tailed tits, a pair of buzzards, and the S Water lake is indeed attracting a few things inc gadwall and shoveler.
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