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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · 4d

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

To support our projects👇 [email protected]

Want boxes /talks at your school?
sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/swift-events/S…

Box info:
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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · 16d

Swift bricks in every new home? 🏠🐦

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

Let’s give swifts a future. ✊

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · Aug 17

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

Swift Diaries

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

cwjoneschris.substack.com

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 16

🧱 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

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 26

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

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 26

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

🎶 Childhood' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0.
scottbuckley.com.au

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 16

Catch our Screaming Swifts podcast with the Wild Tales team at @nationaltrust.org.uk
👇
youtu.be/BGcbHRJp_xA?...

Screaming Swifts | Living Life on the Fly | Podcast

YouTube video by National Trust

youtu.be

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 1

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
maps.app.goo.gl/g8QYWchw1TQm...

(📽️ Denmark) 🙏 Johnskovhus

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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

Swift Diaries

Fascination

cwjoneschris.substack.com

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 28

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...

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…

sheffieldswiftnetwork.org

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 9

Aww. Thanks @jabaddams.bsky.social
Lots of amazing people around the country working tirelessly to save Swifts.
Email [email protected]
To MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · May 14

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...

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Timewalkproject @timewalkproject.bsky.social · Apr 4

@helpsheffield.bsky.social

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Apr 3

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

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Mar 31

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...

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…

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Mar 30

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

sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/2025/03/30/3...

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…

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Mar 25

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.

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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social · Mar 18

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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