An abundance of flora will bloom in the damp ground of Oughtonhead Common in the weeks and months ahead. As Brian Sawford once noted: "Marshes fed with highly calcareous waters can support a great variety of wildflowers". 

 Dog Rose (Rosa canina) is much in evidence at the moment. Hedgerows are the classic habitat but here one grows right next to one of the ditches that cuts across the common. As I stood at this spot I heard the call of a Cuckoo loud and close by.