Monday 21 Apr 25. (11.15 - 12.45) Found the 3 Ponies, but was unable to get to where the cattle were. Also found a grass snake.

 Did a circuit of the areas where I commonly find the ponies, but found none.

So, I headed towards the J4/K4/K5 area, where the tracker showed all four cattle were located.  Despite dismounting the bike and crossing a "bridge", certainly not designed with my 23 stone in mind, I probably got within 50 yards of them, but was unable to view them.  They did not move much from that area, (according to the tracker) for the rest of my time on the common.

I then began another pony search and quickly came upon all three, on the SE corner of the ammo dump in F6.  I took several pictures of each, but accidentally deleted all but this one.  All three were grazing contentedly and appeared well.

While I was near the "bridge" in the J5ish area, I came across a small piece of corrugated iron, lying on the ground.  I know that snakes like to be under these, so I inverted it and managed to get the following photo as a (approx 12-inch long, 1/4 inch thick) brown snake uncurled itself and headed quickly back under the piece if CI.  I believe it to be a grass snake.  You may need to copy & zoom into the photo.  It's moving L to R and it's head is already under the CI.