Here is the latest newsletter from the Lewes Swift Supporters: LSS Newsletter May 2022
Category: Swifts
The aim of this section of the site is to focus attention on the need to protect, wherever possible, the nesting sites of Swifts in Sussex. These birds are declining for several reasons, one being due to their nesting areas being destroyed. In conjunction with Edward Mayer and www.swift-conservation.org. it is hoped that we can continue to highlight the help that can be given to these wonderful birds.
Lewes Swifts July Newsletter
The Lewes Swift Supporters are encouraging Swifts to breed in Lewes. Here is their latest newsletter: LSS Newsletter July 2021
Lewes Swifts June Newsletter
Here is the latest newsletter from the Lewes Swift Supporters: LSS Newsletter June 2021
Lewes Swifts April Newsletter
Here is the latest newsletter from the Lewes Swift Supporters: LSS Newsletter April 2021
Swift conservation in Sussex in 2020
Swift conservation in Sussex in 2020 A summary by David Campbell, Sussex Ornithological Society Swift Champion It is necessary to refer briefly to the tedious COVID-19 pandemic, as Swift conservation was inevitably compromised by the situation this year. Indoor meetings were either impossible or difficult to organise, while surveys and installation of boxes […]
Lewes Swift Group – November Newsletter
Here is a review of the work done in Lewes to increase the number of Swifts finding nesting boxes in 2021. Audrey Wende swifts@sos.org.uk
Lewes Swift Group – Autumn Newsletter
Although the covid-19 regulations reduced much of the Swift survey work done in Lewes, members of the Lewes Swift Supporters Group did well, and this is their end of season report. Audrey Wende swifts@sos.org.uk
Lewes Swift Supporters Group Newsletter
A good read here
Logging Swifts on BirdTrack
If you’re fortunate enough to have a Swift colony near where you live, now is an ideal time to take an evening walk around your neighbourhood and log any low-flying parties of Swifts or evidence of nest sites on BirdTrack. Please include as much detail as possible on behaviour and location, ideally including an address […]
Swifts – April 2020
We can’t go very far to see birds right now but we can be glad there’s no virus stopping avian globetrotting. Birds are still coming to us, as ever. After the months of anticipation, the pace at which one species after another floods in still surprises each year. Most of our spring migrants are in […]
