Lets just be clear @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social You have not making sure that swift bricks will be installed in all new build. This is guidance. Its not mandatory. Please don't pretent to be nature friendly. Labour MPs were whipped to vote against mandating swift bricks. Not a win for swifts.

Robin fest followerd my murmuration at Yorks Wildlife Trust Potteric Carr, this evening

Robin Festival today at Potteric Carr, south Yorks 😃

From fairytales to modern horror films, wolves are too often cast as monsters and that misinformation shapes public opinion more than science does. In the UK and Ireland, where wolves have been absent for centuries, this fear is one of the biggest barriers to wolf recovery. 🔗 https://bit.ly/48mtSA3

The Government’s Child Poverty Strategy published today is the first we’ve seen for 11 years – which in itself is a sea change. 🧵 👇

AI the beginning of the end of humanity

Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them. This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Christine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant Ape explores our unjustifiable sense of superiority in the living world, laying out the evidence against it, says Elle Hunt

Residents voices. A short video after we at Sheffield Swift Network installed 61 swift bricks in a council estate in the SE of Sheffield. Funded from a grant from Sheffield City Council 's Species Survival Fund Grant from Defra. People care about wildlife. youtube.com/shorts/LNHSk...

The government has badly let wildlife down. But we will continue to work with local authorities to help halt swift decline one swift brick at a time. @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social www.sheffield.gov.uk/news/2025/he...

Beautiful eulogy for the slender billed curlew from Mary Colwell. www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

We challenge Lord Krebs’ claim that Amendment 245 won’t work. Swifts nest in 4–5m buildings as Evidenced in our film l. They need swift bricks to survive as old sites vanish Listen to swift conservation experts! #SaveOurSwifts #SwiftBricks #PlanningBill

We’re delighted that the BBC has featured a positive article about our recent swift brick project. 👇 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We have just written an open letter to Lord Krebs via newspapers &email, signed by 77 swift conservation groups across the UK showing our incredulity at his incorrect comments in the House of Lords debate on amendment 245 Planning & Infrastructure Bill this week. #SwiftBricks #PlanningBill

youtube.com/watch?v=L-zI... @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social I hear that Lord Kreb claimed in the HofL today that swift bricks dont work. He cited a single longitudinal study of one tower on the Oxford museum. Ive surved 100s of houses for swift nests. Swifts nest in eaves & swift bricks. Pl vote S🧱s

"The industry shows extreme disregard for animal welfare... China’s development is in direct conflict with global values.” Jeff Zhou, our China Representative, speaking to Bloomberg on the rise of foie gras exports from China.

Residents voices. A short video after we at Sheffield Swift Network installed 61 swift bricks in a council estate in the SE of Sheffield. Funded from a grant from Sheffield City Council 's Species Survival Fund Grant from Defra. People care about wildlife. youtube.com/shorts/LNHSk...

We have just finished a project to install 71 swift bricks in houses in S.E. Sheffield. We at Sheffield Swift Network received a small grant from the Council's species survival fund grant for Shirebrook Valley (DEFRA finded) Watch below to hear the voices of the recipients. Nature matters in Housing

I always think of Roy Bailey as Great childrens songs, Kangaroos like to hop, the vitimn dance etc but this song is so relevant now as it ever was youtu.be/LtxQhDLQ9do?...

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay

We should all take a leaf out of Jane Goodhall's book. RIP compassionate person.

Why do the children of elderly patients stay away? Loneliness makes them get sicker and stay sicker for longer | Ranjana Srivastava

Tonight's visitor

Lovely young dotterel dropped in for a visit on its migration south these last two days. It seems fairly chilled and happy to rest for a while. #houndkirkmoor #sheffield

#WallsonWednesday Why not pop in a swift brick and create a home for red listed cavity nesting birds

Swift Bricks nestled between your walls - not just for swifts, not just for brick buildings. Bespoke, beautiful, affordable and built to last by @AfSwifts. How GREAT do these look? Nest boxes in the building for life! Info here 👇 sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/swift-brick-... 📸 Paul Wren

Are we really ready for AI?

🧱 61 new Swift Bricks have landed in Sheffield! This Sept we’ll install them in Woodhouse & Hackenthorpe, creating permanent nest sites. Thanks to local residents like Daniel, for offering space for our Red Listed Swifts 🙏Sheffield City Council, DefraGovUK & HeritageFundUK #SpeciesSurvivalFund

My cousin’s family need help. On holiday to the UK from Australia their 3 yr old daughter went blind and got very sick. 8 months later they are still here fighting for her life. If you can help pls do so it’s been so hard on them all. Thanks. 🙏 gofund.me/3a1dfe80

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

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Butterflies loving the last of the thistles today

Over multiple generations of exposure, small nematode worms began to prefer microplastic-contaminated food over cleaner options – and other animals could pick up the same habit.

The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90

Beautiful baby dunnocks in the garden this morning

Finally. My sweet peas have started to flower

Fox asleep near the train line in Devon coming into Exeter

Congratulations everyone- fewer than 3000 to hit 100K. So let’s get signing #parkypetition100k petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

@marksandspencers.bsky.social Im only contacts ng you on socmedia as you dont appear to have an email address. I want to express my concern about the quality of your cotton tee shirts that have gone further and further down hill for a number of years. Ive got teesfrom 20 yrs ago in better

Sunrise from bedroom window #sheffield #4:45am

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BBC News - Prisoners' bird boxes aim to aid struggling swifts www.bbc.com/news/article...

5:45 and the #parkypetition100k needs another 70 signatures by 8:20 to hit its daily target! Get signing please petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

'Lone sunset' by contemporary US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt