New Forest Ponies, Hampshire, England

A mare nursing her near-black foal on a woodland lawn at Emery Down in the New Forest in September 2024. Scenes like this happen a few feet from the road, which is why the forest is the easiest place in Britain to see free-roaming ponies. They are not wild, though. Every pony is owned by a commoner who pays a fee to turn it out, and mounted agisters employed by the Verderers' Court keep watch over them. Between late summer and fall, the agisters run pony drifts, galloping round-ups that bring the herds in for an annual welfare check.