Sheffield Swift Network

🛑 Stop grouse shooting

📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice.

🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August

📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park

🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

Thank you Lynn. It's great news isn't it? Every new nest site truly makes a difference.

If you build it they will come!
Much evidence of swifts taking up residence in new nests across the city
For FREE advice email
sheffieldswiftnetwork@gmail.com
Or see website
sheffieldswiftnetwork.org

🎶 Childhood' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0.
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YouTube video by National Trust Screaming Swifts | Living Life on the Fly | Podcast

Catch our Screaming Swifts podcast with the Wild Tales team at @nationaltrust.org.uk
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Nice evening for a patch Zitter! Still present showing intermittently in song-flight. #kentbirding

Join @TotleySwifts & experience the aerial aerobatics of our iconic summer visitors on a guided Swift Walk in Sheffield for Swift Awareness Week

Friday July 4th: 8.15pm till dark
Meet: entrance to Green Oak Park/ Mickley Lane
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(📽️ Denmark) 🙏 Johnskovhus

Swift Diaries Fascination

It’s Swift Awareness Week. I’ve been writing about the swifts of Crookes all this summer in these posts and diary entries. @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social

Future proof you home for swifts – here’s how! We at the Sheffield Swift Network have learnt quite alot over the years about what’s working and what’s not for our swifts. The result is our new guidance that we hope you find invaluab…

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘄𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀?
Future proof precious nests against INEVITABLE & potentially devastating results of roof repairs

🔸This season, note the precise nest entrance points
🔸Then visit our website 👇

sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/2025/06/27/f...

Aww. Thanks @jabaddams.bsky.social
Lots of amazing people around the country working tirelessly to save Swifts.
Email angela.rayner.mp@parliament.uk
To MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS

SWIFT TALK TONIGHT
Join us tonight Wed 14th May, 7.15pm
at our talk for @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social

Lecture Theatre 2, Ground Floor, The Diamond Building at the University of Sheffield, Leavygreave Road, Sheffield
S3 7RD.

More info here sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/upcoming-eve...

@helpsheffield.bsky.social

Pop & see us at 'Swifts' an illustrated talk by Alasdair McKee, with RSPB Sheffield.
Thu 3 Apr. 7.30pm. Central United Reformed Church S1 2BJ
£4 @RSPB & @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social
£5 non members
@SheffSwiftNet are delighted to be invited to hold a stall at the talk.
📷 Robert B ooth

Sheffield Swift Network Takes Flight as a Charity! Sheffield, UK – March 27, 2025 – The Sheffield Swift Network is thrilled to announce its new status as a registered charity, marking a significant milestone in our mission to conserve the endangere…

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆
Join us in celebrating this exciting new chapter and please get involved in our efforts to protect Sheffield’s swifts
👇
sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/2025/03/30/s...

34 new nesting chambers for Swifts in Sheffield City Centre Sheffield Hallam University will soon open a suite of new buildings running up Howard Street in the City Centre.When plans for the buildings were first being developed, members of the Sheffield Swi…

34 fab new swift chambers on Sheffield Hallam Uni campus, Howard St.
Hopefully the Swifts will approve, & before long our city centre skies will be filled with the sound of swifts.
Thanks to @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social for their incredible support

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𝗣𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘄𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 '𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱' 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗸 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸'𝘀 - 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸,

A 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 thank you to Rosemary Telfer and The Friends of Norfolk Heritage Park and to local councillors and SCC for supporting the initiative.

Sheffield Hallam University - GTA Scholarship in CRESR: Bringing Nature Home: reconciling climate mitigation and nature restoration goals in building retrofit to promote multi-species justice, with th... PhD Project - Sheffield Hallam University - GTA Scholarship in CRESR: Bringing Nature Home: reconciling climate mitigation and nature restoration goals in building retrofit to promote multi-species ju...

𝗙𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗛𝗗 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗺 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆.
''𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦...'

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Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 16th March 2025 Edgelands edition. The half here, half there places we often overlook.

Today’s 🌳🌲🪶🐞notpaper for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...

🪳🌱💚 Gus.

What's On Out There? The Bill's Mother's Links & Listings Service - March 2025 The What’s On Out There links & listings service for the Outdoor City. Free preview for all, full listings and regular updates online for our full subscribers.

What’s On Out There? Listings, news & links for #TheOutdoorCity #Sheffield - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...

University of Sheffield giving some love to our the City’s resident Peregrine pair.

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A HUGE thanks to Joy - a wonderful member of our Sheffield Swift community - for donating this fabulous Peak Boxes 2 tier corner box. Together with a swift caller, we hope to install it at our next school talk.

Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 23rd Feb 2025 Cemetery flight nights. Future farming. Fruit and litter picking news.

Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 23rd Feb 2025
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It's #NationalNestBoxWeek.
Help replace some of the millions of nests lost in time for the arrival of our red listed birds.
For free advice email
sheffieldswiftnetwork@gmail.com
🪺 Swift bricks
🪺 External Swift boxes
🪺 UPVC soffit boxes
🪺 House Martin cups

Painting swifts and skies- a blog at

jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com

Will you be this swift’s #Valentine ? And help its joy-bringing kind? ♥️♥️If you have a LABOUR MP and want to join the fight to save our swifts email me at thefeatherspeech@gmail.com and I’ll reply with a template you can send.♥️♥️

Happy Swift quiz winners receive their Swift brick prizes!
Home to many other species, these fab, universal nest bricks are a win for the homeowners and an even bigger win for Sheffield's biodiversity.

Stick in a brick, it's a nest for life - PRICELESS
👇
sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/how-to-buy-a...

Not sure if it was the bird themed pastries on offer or the promise of one of our riveting Swift talks, but we had a great turn out for our CPD lunchtime talk to Aecom.

We'd love to pop along and chat to you and your team.
sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/swift-events/