Clik here to view.
Sedburgh School makes Swift boxes
Thank you to Tanya & Edmund Hoare and Sedburgh Community Swifts for this story.Our Sedbergh Community Swifts group was delighted when the Design Technology department at Sedbergh School in Cumbria...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another flat-topped roof installation in Tel Aviv
This is another useful case study showing how to add a large number of nestboxes to a protected building, without compromising its appearance. It is the same concept as this project. There must be many...
View ArticleClik here to view.
St Vigor's Belfry
The roof on St Vigor's church, Fulbourn, containing 4 Swift nest sites under the eaves (described here), needed repairing. Although the nest sites could be preserved, it could not be done without the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guests of Summer
In 2013 we publicised Enric Fusté's research on diets for rehabilitated Swifts. Despite this, advice continues on various websites and in publications advocating diets that are harmful to Swifts.Most...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Belfry cabinets without screws
We have recently looked at a belfry in Suffolk where there is no way of attaching nestboxes directly to the church fabric. Normally one can either screw the boxes to wooden louvre frames, or by screws...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SLN meeting Bristol November 2016
On 19th November, around 60 SLN members met at Bristol Zoo to hear about some of the latest developments in the world of swift conservation and – just as importantly – to meet each other.Photo Bristol...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CJ commercialises the Cambridge Swift box system
The first batch of Cambridge System Swift boxes has been produced by CJ Wildlife with installations by the Duchy of Cornwall at NansledanNansledan is a 218-hectare urban extension of Newquay to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another nice result of the Cambridge System
Two things are new about this project: firstly it is an example using CJ WoodStone boxes inside, secondly it is one of the first projects implemented by someone other than AfS.Jan Stannard's Victorian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
9 nest sites becomes 50 in Ludlow
This is a great story about what can happen when you put an active local group together with cooperative architects and developers resulting in a most satisfactory outcomebyRobin PoteFor and on behalf...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another successful Derbyshire System project
We have reported before examples of entrances cast in situ, using an entrance former (see here). This has become known as the Derbyshire System after the first project using this idea. This is another...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Swift boxes in southern Sweden
Benny BåthWe received this story and pictures from Benny Båth who lives near Rydsnäs in central southern Sweden. Benny has built many nest boxes for a range of species, but has only installed Swift...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A New colony box in Magrath Avenue
We first installed a 4-box cabinet, made by Bob Tonks on Helen Hodgson's house in Magrath Avenue, Cambridge in 2010. Helen already had one pair of Swifts nesting on top of the wall under her eaves, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A new Swift box in GRP
GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic) is a waterproof material normally used for making boats, car bodies and other products which need to combine strength with light weight. So, Len Haworth decided to apply...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Swift tower at The Avenue Washlands
Back in 2011, we posted an idea for a Swift tower, based upon four 4-box cabinets, so 16 nest chambers. Since then, we have installed a fair number of 4-box cabinets, many of which have between 1 and 4...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Swift boxes at Cley Nature Reserve
When it was suggested to Richard Porter, a Cley resident and Trevor Williams an energetic volunteer with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust that it might be a good idea to have Swift boxes on the visitor...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Headroom experiment at Greys Farm
Greys, near Royston, Herts is where Edward Darling uses 2 sq km of chalk soil to create a living landscape benefitting many forms of priority wildlife, including a wide range of birds, mammals and rare...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Swift boxes at the David Attenborough Building
The David Attenborough Building in Cambridge houses conservation practitioners and academics, who are working together Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). "The David Attenborough Building will act...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another triangular cabinet in Elsworth
In 2015 we installed a 3-box triangle on my daughter's sunny gable end (here). It is now occupied by 2 pairs of Swifts so we wondered how to expand the number of boxesThere were 2 choices, either to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Entrances made by cutting bricks
We no longer recommend that people make an entrance to an internal nest box by cutting bricks, unless you know what you are doing. This is because of a number of experiences of getting the wrong size,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Swift boxes at Lowgill
In 2013 we reported on developments at Tanya & Edmund Hoare's Lowgill house. Over the years, this has developed into 4 Schwegler 25s Swift bricks, 6 Zeist boxes, and most notable of all, 10 custom...
View Article