A large lorry arrived at the reserve today. The tail-gate was opened and the ramp lowered. Five lovely Exmoor Ponies alighted - arriving at Broadwater Warren for their summer holidays, away from the South Downs. The ponies will spend the next six months chomping through grasses, nibbling at birch and trampling the ground - recreating many of the natural processes that wildlife responds to.
They quickly slowed to a walk, to inspect their new surroundings...
With 150 acres to explore, the question the ponies seemed to be thinking was "which way now?...."