Yorkshire - Kettlewell

Nice and sunny today. We started by walking up the hills where the odd stream flowed down to the river. Otherwise it was short limestone grassland.
There I found wild thyme, eyebright, harebells, fairy flax and cats ear all over the place. More marsh willowherb, yellow sedge, burnet saxifrage and plenty of knotted pearlwort in flower too.
As we started going down again we disturbed a stoat that was hopping about in the grass and running along an old wall, only metres away. It scurried into a hole in the wall and came out with a baby stoat in its mouth, before running up and over the wall. Beautiful views but unfortunately I didn't have time to switch to my zoom lens from my macro lens so I only got an "in the distance photo".
We then walked back along the valley, following the river through dryish meadows. Here I found flowers such as slender thistle (though not so slender but rather spiky!), great and salad burnets, common knapweed, meadow crane's-bill mixing nicely with the creme coloured meadowsweet, a patch of common restharrow, crosswort, and wild pansies.
Only 3 butterflies today: meadow brown, green-veined white and a small tortoiseshell.