Installations update for May 2025
6 May 2025
Blink and you miss the seasons!! I can’t believe it’s May already. I spotted my first swifts above Dawlish on […]
Links
Useful swift-related websites and apps
The Action for Swifts site provides just about everything related to swifts! They were a great resource for me when I began making and installing nestboxes. Thanks AfS!
The RSPB Swift Page is a great resource for swift facts. Swift Conservation is another great site providing information on a wide range of swift related subjects.
Swift Conservation is another great site providing information on a wide range of swift related subjects.
The Swiftmapper App by the RSPB provides a range of information including, locations of nesting swifts, destroyed nests, and nestbox installations. Anyone can download the app and record sightings. The aim is to provide a database to increase protection during building development and renovation.
Here is my proposal for the Cathedral, you’re welcome to use it as a template for your own installations…
Swift Conservation Proposal for Exeter Cathedral
Here are some instructions to fitting a nestbox to your house. Please contact for further details and more indepth advice. Swift nestbox leaflet
Instructions for setting the digital timer for our Swift caller…. Digital Timer Instructions
More detailed instructions for the Swift Caller, mostly for church installations, but relevant to all. Grab a cup of tea, it’s 13 minutes long!! Swift Caller detailed Instructions.
Church Installation Guideline. leaflet. I can send out hard copies if required. Swift Nestbox Church Installation Guidelines
Events Calendar
Upcoming events for the Devon Swift Project
End of April Travel to churches in the project to turn on the call systems
4th May Exeter Cathedral open day presentation Devon Swift Project with a display stand.
24th June Cathedral installation confirmed! We’ve fixed the date for the Installation and will be installing 128 nest chambers in the South Tower.
29th July Installations at Lapford and High Bickington churches.
News
The latest from the Devon Swift Project
The amazing Swift Champions!
3 May 2025
The rapid growth of the project due to the support from Devon Birds and the Devon Environment Foundation, including the […]
Crowdfunder
20 March 2025
The Devon Swift Project is entering its second year! Devon Birds and the Devon Environment Foundation have provided amazing support […]
Church installation map
9 December 2024
Click on the map below to see the locations which have swift colony nestboxes installed by the Devon Swift Project, […]
Mamhead, St. Thomas’.
7 November 2024
A slightly unique installation in a church not far from home. The site for the church was chosen in the […]
Devon Swift Project work in Autumn 2024.
7 November 2024
The project has been busy over the past month, focussing on all of the locations that gave consent over the […]