RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/115560231574137263

This is what we should be doing for #Swifts! Not blocking up their ancestral nests!

#Birds #Derbyshire #NetworkRail

FFS! 😡 Anger as #swifts’ nesting holes in #Derbyshire rail #viaduct ‘blocked up’

Campaigners say birds could die trying to access ancestral nests that were sealed during rail refurbishment

Patrick Barkham
Fri 10 Apr 2026

"Network Rail began work on the refurbishment of the 160-year-old viaducts last summer while swifts were nesting. An ecological report, commissioned by Network Rail and not required by law, found no evidence of nesting swifts.

"This claim was challenged by swift watchers, who assembled 38 pieces of evidence they said showed at least nine nest sites on the viaducts. Network Rail later accepted there were swift holes and said it had worked around the nesting birds.

"British Transport Police’s wildlife crime team was investigating whether nesting birds may have been disturbed, after the refurbishment work was reported to the police by campaigners last summer."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/10/anger-as-swifts-nesting-holes-in-derbyshire-rail-viaduct-blocked-up

#UKPol #AnimalCruelty #WildlifeCrimes #CitizenScience #BirdWatching #Wildlife #HumanIgnorance

"Our skies get quieter every summer: from 1995 to 2023, the UK swift population declined by 68%. “It is a pretty consistent decline,” says the RSPB’s migratory birds programme manager, Dr Guy Anderson, “and it’s pretty consistent wherever you look in the UK.”

#Swifts #Birds #Wildlife #Environment

The reasons are murky, but‘Swifts spark joy!’ Why these beautiful birds need our help – and 10 ways to give it | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/swifts-spark-joy-why-these-beautiful-birds-need-our-help-and-10-ways-to-give-it?&CMP=upside_email

first Venus, then Saturn

Mnemonic
Sarah Edwards

#Poetry #SarahEdwards #Mnemonic #Wildness #Venus #Saturn #Swifts #September #Hawk #PalmReading #EBike #GigEconomy #Telescope

https://readwildness.com/41/edwards-mnemonic

Swift First Aid & Care
https://www.swift-conservation.org/SwiftFirstAid.htm

#SolarPunkSunday #Swifts #BioDiversity #WildLife #Birds #Conservation

Schottland hat den Einbau von Nestziegel für Mauersegler in Neubauten gesetzlich vorgeschrieben. Das sind hervorragende Neuigkeiten für die stark rückgängige Population.
#mauersegler #swifts #artenschutz

https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/scotland-becomes-first-uk-country-to-put-swift-bricks-into-law?utm_source=notes_on_nature_20260207&utm_medium=email&utm_term=notes_on_nature&utm_content=14&utm_campaign=notes_on_nature

https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/save-our-swifts

#swifts #swiftBricks #swiftBrick

"This is a brilliant example of how communities can make a real difference – not just for wildlife, but for the future of our planet."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgkj78e3zvo

#SheffieldSwiftNetwork #Sheffield #Birds #Nature #Swifts #WildLife #Community #BirdsOfMastodon #BioDiversity #Nests #SolarPunkSunday