Kessie

IT SEEMS THAT one in every eight fields is brilliant yellow with oilseed rape.

Wren and Willow Warbler are singing in the wood. The Wild Garlic now has a smattering of white flower, but most of the leaves have lost that fresh look and are now the worse for wear, spotted with light blotches.

A new pony, a Welsh Cob called Kessie, (her registered name is Vanessa, but she certainly isn't a Nessie by nature), arrives in the meadow behind our house; minutes after her release from the van she seems at ease, but it will take a while for her to become accustomed to the new field, the new sounds. At least she has been on her own, at times, before.

Richard Bell,
wildlife illustrator
E-mail; 'richard@daelnet.co.uk'