It’s been wonderful to see people across Greenhill and Lowedges coming together to give swifts a better chance of finding a safe nesting place for future generations. This month, four swift boxes a…

Hope is the thing with feathers

Heeley City Farm, one of Sheffield’s best-loved green spaces, has taken an important step to support the city’s red-listed swifts. With Tesco Stronger Starts funding through Groundwork’s blue token…

Peak Swift days are here. Bill's Mother's Book Club in Japan. Have your say on Nature Recovery.

ACTIVE NESTS ARE PROTECTED BY LAW. It is illegal to interfere with a nest that is in use. The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 provides legal protection for wild birds, their nests, and eggs.…

Where are you swifts?

This summer, Sheffield Swift Network is running a survey of around 600 homes in S5 and S9 to find out exactly where these amazing birds are nesting – ahead of the Council’s re-roofing program…

Sheffield Swift Network has installed 61 swift nesting bricks and 10 attraction callers into houses in Hackenthorpe and Woodhouse around the Shire Brook Valley.  🎥 Watch the following short fi…

Watch Woody’s story on our YouTube channel here [like and subscribe for swift updates!] : It’s always inspiring to hear from local residents helping Sheffield’s swift population grow. One great exa…

The new double-chamber nest brick from Action for Swifts – designed to make it easier than ever to provide nesting spaces for swifts, starlings, and house sparrows in new developments.  …

Artificial Nests Boost Threatened Swift Populations! Take advantage of this Swift Nest Box Offer from our friends at Nestworks and give these precious, fast-declining birds a safe place to have the…

O for a beaker full of the warm South (John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale')

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