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A huge thanks to our volunteer - Sue Colver - for this guest blog! When I retired to Darley Dale over four years ago, I was so excited to see Swifts flying over my back garden and to hear the glorious sound of screaming parties, yet alone to witness ...
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Are you excited for the arrival of Spring? So are we! As the weather warms up, it’s almost time to welcome back one of our most beloved seasonal visitors: the incredible, high-flying Swift. To kick off the 2026 Swift season and celebrate the second ...
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As spring approaches and the days start to get a bit longer, we have one spectacular seasonal visitor to look forward to: the Common Swift (Apus apus). These incredible, acrobatic birds spend almost their entire lives on the wing, arriving in the UK ...
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Derbyshire Swift Conservation is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Claire Mead as Project Co-ordinator to the Derbyshire Dales Swift Project. This role is one of three paid appointments, funded largely by The National Lottery Heritage ...
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Despite pressure on government from the #FeatherSpeech campaign and others, to date there is no national legislation enforcing the mandatory inclusion of Swift bricks in new developments. At the local level, planning authorities can include such ...
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Church belfries have long been recognised as a suitable location for Swift boxes as they provide a safe, weather-proof and elevated location for a large number of Swift nest sites. In Derbyshire, however, until recently, little use has been made of ...
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The Swifts of Rowsley have been under intense scrutiny for the past 3 years yet some of the information collected as part of this project happened by chance, rather than by design, and that in itself has led us to revise how we look at Swift ...
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The village of Rowsley, situated at the confluence of the Derwent & Wye rivers in the Derbyshire Dales and located between the towns of Bakewell & Matlock and the Chatsworth & Haddon estates, has an interesting history linked to the ...
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The Swift Local Network (SLN) is an informal body comprised of over 130 Swift groups located across the UK and Ireland. Members communicate via the swiftslocalnetwork Google Group and from time to time meet in person at SLN national meetings. In the ...
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Courtesy @Robert Booth Like night follows day, every Swift breeding season is characterised by the discovery that renovation work over the winter has blocked off Swift nest sites or a contractor erects scaffolding on a building with active Swift ...
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