A swift box newly installed in Stratford Avenue, West Didsbury already has a pair of nesting swifts and others visiting the lure to check out the location. These 2 videos show swifts entering the nesting box and others attracted to the lure briefly perching next to it and flying off.

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Purple wildflower meadow in Sale, Greater Manchester. Photo by Sue Langford (via flickr creative commons)

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Creating a Chorlton ‘Swift Street’

A group of 12 people sit around a long white table and look to the camera which is facing down the length of the table.

SMS member Jude Benson has been working hard in the Chorlton area this year to galvanise residents around the idea of swift boxes. The project is building momentum and here

Celebrating Manchester’s first Swift Street

Installing swift boxes on Chorlton's Swift Street.

Chorlton resident Caroline Pinney shares an update from the neighbourhood where a group of local residents have created Manchester’s first ‘Swift Street’ with support from South Manchester Swifts: Monday 7th