The Lewes Swift Supporters are encouraging Swifts to breed in Lewes. Here is their latest newsletter: LSS Newsletter July 2021

Here is the latest newsletter from the Lewes Swift Supporters: LSS Newsletter June 2021

Here is the latest newsletter from the Lewes Swift Supporters: LSS Newsletter April 2021

  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 […]

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  

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

A good read here

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 […]

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 […]

For a second year Swifts experienced cold and wet weather as they migrated north out of Africa into Europe across the Mediterranean, and many birds died from cold and starvation. Eventually our birds arrived back to their nesting sites and by June and July breeding was being documented in Birdtrack, with six figure grid references. […]