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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Northenden Golf Club

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

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 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

How to map your Swift nest boxes

A screenshot of the Swift Mapper map view, showing various pins across a map of south Manchester.

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