The fields along the A30 near Heathrow have horses that are a familiar sight to anyone driving by. I think I may have photographed them on a previous visit. When I got there this spring, there were a number of foals in the fields. Some of them were a bit far away but others were coming quite close to the fence. One of them was right up to the path and was clearly interested in all of the people nearby. There was no way I wasn’t going to get a picture or two of these cute little guys.
My visit to Hatton Cross was to shoot airplanes but, as I came out of the tube station and walked along the A30 to Myrtle Avenue, I passed some fields that had a bunch of horses grazing in them. This seemed like such an incongruous thing to see. I was in amongst the housing and right next to an international airport with a major road passing through. Having so many horses there seemed like the last thing I would have expected.
Some of them looked like large working horses while others were either ponies or foals. I am not a specialist so can’t tell the difference. The approach lights for the runway were in the field surrounded by fencing which seemed to attract some of the ponies for some reason. They looked pretty tranquil and clearly had no interest in the planes passing overhead. How could they not be looking???
