These two little foals are spending some quality grooming and bonding time together - so far they'll have had virtually no human contact other than seeing the occasional tourist or walker go by. They're quite accepting of you quietly watching and observing them. Once you get to know a group of wild ponies, you will often know them better than their owners (who rarely seem to check on them at all!).
You'll know where the herd will be depending on the time of day or the weather...they'll even come and share a gorse bush with you when the weather comes down hard. It's amazing how sheltering a gorse bush can be, just best not get too close to it!
The herd works together as a group - and they'll adapt to the situation if necessary, including moving or roaming about at the pace of their slowest member...much more tolerant than we are as a human society - we could certainly take a leaf out of their book!
The problem is of course, that these foals will only have a couple of months before their world is turned upsidedown - unwanted by human society they will be "dispatched" and then forgotten by their owners...it's soul destroying come the autumn to go back out to find the herd you knew and ponies have "disappeared". To an owner the pony might be unwanted - to the herd they may have a crucial role to play...but all this is because the "management" of the ponies isn't for the ponies themselves at all.
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