Norwich Swift Network

Helping you to help the Swifts of Norwich.
Tell us about your sightings. Want to put up a nest box? Please do!
#SaveOurSwifts #NRSwifts [email protected]

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

Please get in touch if you would like a Swift project in your street or church. We have all sorts of solutions for helping these amazing birds. If you can help with hanging boxes that would be amazing too!
Found a Swift on the ground? Info here: https://t.co/mJj2dznejX

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

On a recce visit to #Marsham Church for installing 15 nesting opportunities for #Swifts #NRSwifts we spotted a lovely #BlackRedstart flitting around the roof & tower.
A good sign, don't you think? 💚

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

Who saw #Asia on BBC1 last night? Thousands of #Swifts in a cave in Thailand 💚
But the #catfish also in the cave 😱
https://t.co/s9XZkeKsW4

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

@Norwichbirder Yes a bit of refining the section sizes should resolve the viewing issues on a mobile device, without affecting the appearance on the desktop. 🤞
When you start with a template of another website layout you realise you should have started from scratch 😆

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

OK first glitch hopefully resolved...
New website here 🤞
https://t.co/QW5TlVQVQj
Please try again!

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

@Norwichbirder Ah, thanks James... I havent gone through the mobile version properly yet either. 🙄

[Audubon Society @audubonsociety]

Since the clearing of old-growth forests, Chimney Swifts have taken to manmade roosts, instead of hollowed trees and caves. However, 1000+ Chimney Swifts have been found roosting in @UNC's most famous tree. Read more from @AudubonNC: https://t.co/7hJ6UR3E9T (🎥: Dylan Thiessen)

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

Switched the tv on and #Swifts still calling in Albert Square! #EastEnders 😆

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

@TheMorganics @RSPCA_official @ChrisPack716 @paulpowlesland @NorfolkBea @Sueblueocean From the responses, it seems that action is being taken, hopefully it will happen sooner rather than later & any about to fledge swifts can fly safely.

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

Thanks to @norwichmensshed for making the flatpack nest boxes 👍
If you're looking for a local supplier of swift nest boxes then #headtotheshed!

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

Spent all day Saturday with some young nature restorers and budding swift fans @NorfolkWT #WildWatch #WilderWardens We looked for Swift nest sites, built nest boxes, made posters, & cardboard life size #NRSwifts - so busy I had no time for photos 💚 >) >)

[Sheffield Swift Network @SheffSwiftNet]

Another great read from @BBoBillsMothers. Featuring : Unlikely Otters, imminent Beavers, and best of all, (we may be biased) DETERMINED SWIFTS.
Get in touch with us @SheffSwiftNet, if you'd like to know how to help us save Sheffield's swifts
https://t.co/NVAd33lZlz

[Hugh Harrop Wildlife @HughHarrop]

Breathtaking views of this Pacific Swift found by @RogerRiddington at Virkie, Shetland today. At times it hawked low over the ground only a few metres away from us. Less than 15 British records of this Asiatic species, but the third consecutive year since 2022 that Pacific Swift has been recorded here in Shetland, with all three records falling between 19 June and 15 July. Surely the same returning individual...🤔

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

@MarkSmyth1960 😍

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

These are the faces of a generation of swifts who don’t have enough nesting habitat to recover themselves as a species without @AngelaRayner Govt Dept mandating swift bricks. With the 1.5M 🏡 Labour could create a legacy or ignore an endangered existence reliant on our 🏡

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

@Lotty_ONeill Sorry for the late reply, been v busy, water on a qtip or artists paintbrush to the side of the beak... v important to feed insect food only. Lots of info online

[Spinkybird @Spinkybird]

They fly with forked tails...

#Swift #RedKite

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

I did another talk about helping swifts today, this one at #HethersettBigGreenPicnic & it looks as if we may have initiated a community project there 👍 >) >) >)
Get in touch if you're interested in participating. #NRSwifts

[Graham Denny @GrahamDenny9]

@SoSSwifts @David_Goddin @NorwichSwift We only managed to ring one brood of 3 yesterday that were big enough the rest all good but another week for some and some are still just hatching and some sitting , lots of bumpers about play your calls ! @SoSSwifts @swiftsweek @swifts_uk #swifts

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

Brilliant 👇
I mean, just look at them! 💚

[Graham Denny @GrahamDenny9]

#swifts doing really well plenty of food and record numbers , as are #swallows hopefully martins on eggs now ! @BTO_Suffolk @digiscoper @blackgull @SoSSwifts @bandbswifts @swifts_uk @Gameandwildlife @AllanKi22269349 @MeganRural @CathHodsman @kelly_jowett @D_Garrett_Ento #insects

[Norwich Swift Network @NorwichSwift]

https://t.co/Zan9jH2TbR >) >) >) 💚