How to map your Swift nest boxes

A screenshot of the Swift Mapper map view, showing various pins across a map of south Manchester.
February 15, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Mapping Swifts in South Manchester is vitally important to help us understand the local population numbers and distribution. The most simple tool to map your Swift nest boxes is the

You have until 31st Jan to help swifts in Greater Manchester

Purple wildflower meadow in Sale, Greater Manchester. Photo by Sue Langford (via flickr creative commons)
January 18, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

If you live in Greater Manchester you have until the end of January to have your say on the GM Local Nature Recovery Strategy and make sure the city is

Funding Boost for Didsbury Colony

SMS Secretary Andy stands in front of a seated audience making a speech with a project image of a swift box on the wall behind him.
November 12, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

November marked the opening for applications to Didsbury’s local Neighbourhood Investment Fund, and South Manchester Swifts applied with a proposal to install more swift boxes in the area to support the

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.
November 1, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

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

NEXT MEETING: Thursday 13th March, 7pm

September 28, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

VENUE: The Albert Club, Old Lansdowne Rd, M20 2PA Our next monthly meeting will be at the usual venue, The Albert Club, Old Lansdowne Rd, M20 2PA on Thursday 13th

New Swift Box and Lure in West Didsbury already attracting visitors

July 9, 2024 0 Comments 7 tags

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

Bash that Balsam!  Saturday June 29th

June 8, 2024 0 Comments 8 tags

Friends of Fletcher Moss are taking on the Himalayan Balsam plants in the park and surrounding area before their exploding seedpods spread another generation of this invasive species far and

Swifts in the News

May 27, 2024 0 Comments 6 tags

Just a few examples of how South Manchester Swifts have been working to promote swifts in the local south Manchester press to raise awareness with local residents and encourage people

Northenden Golf Club

May 2, 2024 0 Comments 8 tags

Rebuilt in 2018 after a devastating fire, Northenden Golf Club is now a modern brick building with high, straight walls of the type that are ideal for swift boxes.  The

A Good Day for Swifts

April 25, 2024 0 Comments 5 tags

Monday was a brilliant day for South Manchester Swifts.  About a year’s teamwork culminated in twenty boxes being installed in one day. I’ve attached a few pictures.  Originally, we’d been