Save our swifts: include swift bricks in every new house I just signed the campaign calling to save our swifts, by calling for the UK Government to follow Scotland's lead and make it the law for all new houses to be built with "swift bricks" - safe places f...

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Campaign calling to #SaveOurSwifts, by calling for the UK Government to follow Scotland's lead and make it the law for all new houses to be built with #SwiftBricks" - safe places for these birds to nest. Will you join me? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/save-our...

Save our swifts: include swift bricks in every new house I just signed the campaign calling to save our swifts, by calling for the UK Government to follow Scotland's lead and make it the law for all new houses to be built with "swift bricks" - safe places for these birds to nest. Will you join me?

I just signed the campaign calling to save our swifts, by calling for the UK Government to follow Scotland's lead and make it the law for all new houses to be built with "swift bricks" - safe places for these birds to nest. Will you join me?
https://38d.gs/sb_ps_ot
#uk #saveourswifts #ukpol

What incredible news for the swifts! Congratulations to Hannah Bourne-Taylor and everyone campaigning so tirelessly to #SaveOurSwifts!

📖Read more about Hannah's campaign in #NatureNeedsYou

Well done. We can only hope that the bunch in power will now do the same in England. #winningthebattle #saveourswifts

Please help to save the swifts!

Such lovely birds, so sad to hear they are a species on the UK red list, meaning their numbers are in critical decline. 💔 Requiring swift bricks in new builds (over a certain size) could help them find nest sites & their population to recover.

#SaveOurSwifts

Circumstances can change, SOSSwifts have had these 3 Swift boxes donated back into the @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social project. We will happily donate these 3 nest boxes on for you to install at a Suffolk location where Swifts nest already. #SaveOurSwifts

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

Have you got those dark, winter evening blues already?
Take yourself to a June morning in Dorset and watch the Swifts at Cranborne Manor, flying those live-long Summer days...
All things must pass.
#Swifts #ornithology #dorset #wildlifephotography #ukbirds 🌿🦉 #SaveOurSwifts

Swifts & swift bricks may seem tiny in this world of massive upheavals, war, violence & struggle.

But #swifts are amazing birds. In summer they nested near me - fantastic to see & hear. If new UK homes all had (cheap) swift bricks, & others had swift boxes, it would really help 🐦🙏 #SaveOurSwifts

Swifts are the long-distance athletes of the natural world – flying 5,500km only to find nowhere to nest here in Britain.
A tiny action could make all the difference. For swifts, it’s life or extinction.

#NatureEmergency #SaveOurSwifts @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social

Swift bricks, ancient tattoos and more: Books in brief Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

🪶 @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's 'thought-provoking memoir' #NatureNeedsYou has been selected by @nature.com for their round-up of ‘the best science picks’!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#NonFiction #Campaigner #Birds #Swifts #SaveOurSwifts #Environment #Nature #Science #Ecology

A wing and a prayer: saving our farmland bird populations By bridging ‘the hungry gap’ with supplementary feeding, we can breathe life into our declining farmland bird populations, but farming practices must be changed to secure their future.

By bridging ‘the hungry gap’ with supplementary feeding, we can breathe life into our declining farmland bird populations.
#NatureNeedsYou author @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social writes for @countrylifemag.bsky.social:
www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/a-win...

#birds #bird #farmland #SaveOurSwifts

It's not just the scream of swifts; it's the astonishing sound of their wings as they go scything past.

#SaveOurSwifts

Dumfries prisoners' bird boxes aim to aid struggling swifts The boxes made in Dumfries prison hope to help boost common swift numbers in southern Scotland.

It's #SwiftAwarenessWeek 2025 and our #SaveOurSwifts campaign has been featured today on @bbcscotlandnewsnot.bsky.social - thanks to Carno Media Ltd for coming down to meet the GSA Biosphere Partnership and D&G Climate Hub and spotlighting our swift boxes project.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#NatureNeedsUs #SaveOurSwifts

Please, if you see this, email Angela Rayner with the urgent request that the Labour government mandate the inclusion of swift bricks in all new builds.

‘[Hannah] is an engaging and impassioned communicator, and her rallying cry highlights the struggle of liaising with campaigners, lobbyists and politicians in a bid to effect meaningful change.’ @theobserveruk.bsky.social

#NatureNeedsYou by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social is out now
#SaveOurSwifts

Swift campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social writes for the RSPB blog, describing her incredible fight to save swifts and how YOU can get involved:
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

#SaveOurSwifts #Nature #SwiftBricks #conservation #Birds #BirdWatching #Swifts

Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition ...

Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Please sign the petition! 38d.gs/ky2i #swifts #SaveOurSwifts #wildlife

#SaveOurSwifts
#UKLabour is backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. #MatthewPennycook, step up please.

Swifts need us, more than ever.

#EarlyDayMotion #NatureNeedsYou #SaveOurSwifts #SwiftBricks

Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition ...

Please sign if you can!
@38degrees.bsky.social #SaveOurSwifts

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-p...

Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition ...

Send a message to #Labour and their convictionless leader #Starmer that #swifts and #wildlife in general are far more popular than they will ever be.

Via @38degrees.bsky.social

38d.gs/so3y

#saveourswifts #birds #animals #socialism #labourout #redtories #genocideenablers #notinmyname #warcriminals

Some wonderful photos of @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social at Jaffe and Neale over the weekend. How wonderful is their window? 💛

Signed copies of #NatureNeedsYou are available in store and online, while stocks last.

#SwiftWatch #BeautifulBooks #NatureWriting #ChooseBookshops #SaveOurSwifts

Saw three swifts here in Essex this evening. My first sighting of 2025.
#SaveOurSwifts

First Swift yesterday evening; rural village North Northamptonshire… ✅👏🏻💚

Which is the best retro fit Swift box please (for installing in time for next year’s return)?

#SaveOurSwifts
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social

First #Swift in Downend BS16 last night (30th April) 2 flying low and silent #SaveourSwifts

Swifts campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social in Sunday's @observernews.bsky.social

The conservationist & author of #NatureNeedsYou on protesting nearly naked to help swifts, why she let a baby bird live in her hair, & dealing with online misogyny
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

#SaveOurSwifts

The joys of exploring and restoring the natural world — a round-up of new environment books A memoir by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison; Sarah Lonsdale on the lives of five remarkable women; Hannah Bourne-Taylor’s fight to save swifts; and Hannah Dale’s tale on rewilding a farm

Pilita Clark @financialtimes.com shares her round-up of new books on the natural world - including @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's incredibly inspiring #NatureNeedsYou:
www.ft.com/content/35e6...

#Swifts #SaveOurSwifts #NatureBooks #Birds #NonFiction #Campaigner #Nature #Environment #Rewilding

Got 2 more up this aft, they don't match but Swifts won't care. 8 now in close proximity. Come on you screaming Devilbirds! #ukbirding #Swifts #saveourswifts

This is so important. Please help #SaveOurSwifts #SwiftBricks #EarlyDayMotion