Ilkley Baptist

The moor is a delightful place to be at the moment. I saw the first swallow this afternoon (I say swallows further south in the country a couple of weeks ago, but this is the first I've seen here). Also the first willow warbler, but heard rather than seen. Cotton grass is flowering, and I found some oxalis, too. I also found a flower I haven't identified yet. Fairly low growing, with five paired equal pink petals, looking shiny, almost metallic. The leaves are very unusual, large, spearshaped, opposite and with longish petioles, gradually flaring so that the outline from tip to axil makes a very elegant curve.

I also watched peacock butterflies sunbathing, and a pair of kestrels mating.