Futures Forum: Swifts over Exeter >>> "showcasing the potential for urban green spaces to benefit wildlife"
And Exmouth has a group:
Contact - Jan Gannaway - exmouthswifts@gmail.com
Aims - To conserve and increase our small local breeding population of swifts
Activities - In 2017 we are concentrating on finding all the current breeding sites in our area so that we can protect them and also working with local churches to get boxes into church towers. Later on we hope to work with schools and to persuade local councils to promote swift conservation.
Facebook - facebook.com/groups/ExmouthSwiftGroup
Swifts Local Network – Google My Maps
This is an important week for swifts in the UK:
UK Swift Awareness Week
Saturday 16 June - Saturday 23 June 2018
This summer, Britain will become the first country in the world to dedicate a national week in support of Swifts.
Swift Awareness Week will run from 16 – 23 June. There will be events and publicity all around the country, organised by dozens of local Swift groups. These events aim to raise awareness of Swifts and bring a focus to their plight, and of course provide information about how to help them. The Swift is one of the few endangered species that individuals really can help in their own property and there are many groups across the country working hard to try to halt their dramatic decline of 50% in just 20 years.
UK Swift Awareness Week - National Biodiversity Network
Action for Swifts: 2018 UK Swift Awareness Week, 16-23 June
As promoted by SpringWatch - with comment on their blog:
19 Jun 2018 20:40
I live in East Devon; there is a small colony of swifts in Broadhembury; we see about six flying over our village which is about two miles from there most days, a bit down on last year. There is large colony in the village of Culmstock well established, in the eaves of the Old Mill, also in the town of Honiton swifts are screaming everywhere. Numbers seem the same as last year.
BBC Blogs - Springwatch - Swift Awareness Week
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This is an important week for swifts in the UK:
UK Swift Awareness Week
Saturday 16 June - Saturday 23 June 2018
This summer, Britain will become the first country in the world to dedicate a national week in support of Swifts.
Swift Awareness Week will run from 16 – 23 June. There will be events and publicity all around the country, organised by dozens of local Swift groups. These events aim to raise awareness of Swifts and bring a focus to their plight, and of course provide information about how to help them. The Swift is one of the few endangered species that individuals really can help in their own property and there are many groups across the country working hard to try to halt their dramatic decline of 50% in just 20 years.
UK Swift Awareness Week - National Biodiversity Network
Action for Swifts: 2018 UK Swift Awareness Week, 16-23 June
As promoted by SpringWatch - with comment on their blog:
19 Jun 2018 20:40
I live in East Devon; there is a small colony of swifts in Broadhembury; we see about six flying over our village which is about two miles from there most days, a bit down on last year. There is large colony in the village of Culmstock well established, in the eaves of the Old Mill, also in the town of Honiton swifts are screaming everywhere. Numbers seem the same as last year.
BBC Blogs - Springwatch - Swift Awareness Week
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