Sheffield Swift Network

New double-chamber nest brick from Action for Swifts 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.  …

Developers, architects & ecologists.

The next generation nest brick - from non profit Action for Swifts - is here.
2 chambers in 1 brick without doubling the cost.
👌 for red listed sparrows starlings & swifts 💚
Get in touch for placement advice 👇
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Wonderful news for Scotland’s swifts!

Scotland has unanimously backed law requiring swift nesting bricks in new buildings – a UK first.
Huge congrats to Hannah Bourne-Taylor for tireless campaigning and Green MSP Mark Ruskell. 👏

Following our advice, we're thrilled to see nest boxes for red listed swifts fitted at Spartan Works - part of the Attercliffe Waterside Development in Sheffield.

Thanks to Rize Construction Ltd and CITU for funding them

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘄𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵 🙏

Nest Box Package Offer – Spring 2026 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…

House not suitable for swift bricks? No problem. Sheffield's habitat heroes Nestworks offer a 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝘅 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲.
Which includes
🔸𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝘅
🔸𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿
🔸𝗙𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 £𝟵𝟵

Artificial nest help precious colonies grow. 👇 for details 🙏
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Join us for a free Community Bird Event!
🗓 Sat 31 Jan, 8am–1pm

📍 Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve, Stone Lane, S13 7BR

Enjoy a guided bird walk, fascinating talks on swifts and garden birds, info stalls, & a live bird‑ringing demo!
Everyone’s welcome to celebrate Sheffield’s amazing birdlife! 🐦💚

After our Swift talk with @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social, member, Wesley Booth turned inspiration into action!
With help from MCCP, MASKK & an AMAZING donor, 2 Swift boxes & a swift caller are now up at Temple Park Centre.
🙏 for giving Manor Park's swifts a fighting chance.

💬 Comment or website

Wishing everyone especially festive tidings and joyous screaming parties.

We're delighted to have been chosen alongside our friends Leeds Swifts, as recipients of the
𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗴 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲

Please consider offering your support by donating or sponsoring a team at Gofundme 🙏 👇

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Good luck teams - race for Yorkshire SWIFTS!

Planning roof repairs or putting up scaffolding?
A Sheffield resident turned a roof replacement into a chance to help swifts!
By providing artificial nests he’s helping once‑thriving colonies recover.

Could your project do the same? Drop us a message or comment for free advice.

Frustrating to see politics let wildlife down AGAIN
Gift a swift brick. Home to 9 species & made to last MANY lifetimes
Together, WE can shape a better future for nature
Free bespoke advice 👇
sheffieldswiftnetwork@gmail.com

Or swift brick web page 👇
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We’re delighted that the BBC has featured a positive article about our recent swift brick project.
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We challenge Lord Krebs’ claim that Amendment 245 won’t work. Swifts nest in 4–5m buildings as Evidenced in our film l. They need swift bricks to survive as old sites vanish

Listen to swift conservation experts!
#SaveOurSwifts #SwiftBricks #PlanningBill

Swifts need your voice
The House of Lords votes next week on the swift brick amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill
📧 Email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk
with the subject line
SWIFT BRICKS FOR SWIFT CHICKS
Let’s make sure they hear us before the final vote

61 Swift nest bricks now nestle in the homes around Sheffield’s Shire Brook Valley!
Thanks to amazing residents, swifts - and a host of other species now - have safe places to raise their young, year after year.

Thanks to Sheffield’s generosity, we've installed 5 new swift boxes + a swift caller at Arbourthorne Primary!

To support our projects👇 sheffieldswiftnetwork@gmail.com

Want boxes /talks at your school?
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Box info:
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Swift bricks in every new home? 🏠🐦

Next month the Lords vote on the Swift Brick Amendment—and it’s make or break.
Email thefeatherspeech@gmail.com for a template to send your MP.
🔎 Find your MP here www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/

Let’s give swifts a future. ✊

Swifts: part bird, part sky.

Already installed a nest box or brick? Help more swifts!
Learn about their lifestyle, threats, and ways to make a difference 👇
sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/swifts-part-bird-part-sky/

📸 Stunning b&w image: Robert Booth

#SwiftConservation #SheffieldSwiftNetwork

Swift Bricks nestled between your walls - not just for swifts, not just for brick buildings.

Bespoke, beautiful, affordable and built to last by @AfSwifts.
How GREAT do these look?

Nest boxes in the building for life!
Info here
👇
sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/swift-brick-...

📸 Paul Wren

Drop by our swift stall at
BRADWAY FUN DAY
6th Sept
1.30 - 4.30pm
Bradway Village Green, S17 4QX
𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲, '𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱' 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀.
#SheffieldSwifts #SwiftConservation

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

A final August post on the swifts we share a house with

@drjomaher.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social

🧱 61 new Swift Bricks have landed in Sheffield!

This Sept we’ll install them in Woodhouse & Hackenthorpe, creating permanent nest sites.
Thanks to local residents like Daniel, for offering space for our Red Listed Swifts
🙏Sheffield City Council, DefraGovUK & HeritageFundUK
#SpeciesSurvivalFund

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.
scottbuckley.com.au

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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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 👇

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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...