Peckerwood: Field notes from a feral’d garden

Caught by the River · Aug 23, 2026

Swifts scream joy like fairground goers over Mark Mattock’s “feral’d” NW2 garden. Just for one day …in May Morning is breaking, otherworldly and familiar. Screaming swifts descended from their nocturnal heights slash the first rays fired from the horizon that skim the rooftops and ignite the ash crowns a hot tangerine. Their bladed wings glint […]