Birds ❤️Swift campaigner🪶📚FLEDGLING & NATURE NEEDS YOU 📚for inquiries go to my website 🪶a bird lived in my hair for 84 days🪺 Clarkson’s Farm Series 5 🚜
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Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE @markruskell ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
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In -6 temperatures, I found a woodmouse on the main road, barely able to move. Eyes shut+disorientated I popped it in my glove thinking it would at least die in peace. That was 2 days ago. It’s now in a temporary house with a slipper for a palace, scoffing nuts. #MouseInTheHouse
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Did you know that tennis balls used at Wimbledon are donated to animal rehabilitation centres around Britain for harvest mice.
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20,000 bricks make up the average 2 storey new house & all we ask is that 1 of them has a hole in it - to save a species and preserve an entire category of birds who live alongside us. Labour hated the idea to put a 3 line whip against it. Talk about betrayal.
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One woman rehabbed these swifts, some needing care from trying to get into their blocked nesting sites after a perilous 9 months on the wing. Help these individual birds by signing #TheFeatherSpeech petition to ensure they have safe homes: petition.parliament.uk/petit… #EveryBirdCounts
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Dear @BBCNews we would like to know why you didn’t cover a major news event in #London yesterday. Between 60-100 THOUSAND people marched at the #RestoreNatureNow. It looks like you are picking what you think is newsworthy. Isn’t that called bias? Regards, British wildlife.
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To remind you of who #TheFeatherSpeech is campaigning for🪶these are the faces we are trying to help. These birds successfully fledged so right now, should be in African skies. #EveryBirdCounts Sign and share⬇️ petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Vid: swift rehabber Zoe Crossley. (SOUND on)
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Sometimes I’m asked ‘why do you care?’
‘Swifts are one of the oldest species on earth. They spend more time airborne than any other bird yet when they come home they come home to us. They’re on the brink. They just need a brick with a hole in it.’
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Dear @BreweryRomford your decorations are blocking out red listed House sparrows from their homes. These birds face national extinction. Please consider them too by unwrapping one of the trees. I can provide you with a notice explaining to your customers why.
#conservation #SOS
ALT https://thebreweryromford.com/ 01708748157 PR contact Amie Pomfrett amie@almarketing.com 01707808166 Plastic wrapping with lights on 24/7 effecting House sparrows, who are trying to get back to their homes. A woman has spoken to the management already but they have said they will not change anything.
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Just before swifts fly for the first time - a flight that will keep them in the air for up to 3 years without landing, they perform press-ups to get their vital wings ready. Help create a legacy for THIS rehabbed swift💓sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition ⬇️🪶petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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This bird is designed to cross the Sahara 40 times, spending most of its life in the SKY. Staying loyal to 1 hole in someone's wall, every year it will come HOME to us. Help our iconic neighbours: endangered #swifts by signing #TheFeatherSpeech petition ⬇️petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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THEY HAVE ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!! THE SWIFTS HAVE RETURNED!!!!!! *WELCOME HOME*!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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One of these Peers is the former CEO of …… the RSPB. Talk about betrayal.
These are the people who blocked the swift brick amendment last night. 102 Labour Peers thanks to the rather extreme 3 line whip which just goes to show how much #Labour do NOT want to help nature let alone swifts. Normally a 3 line whip is used for fairly extreme amendments.
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WE HAVE DONE IT! Together we have proved that #PassionIsASuperpower. I launched #TheFeatherSpeech naked + alone + now it is a campaign made up of 100,000 people who care: The Feather Speech belongs to YOU + our irreplaceable feathered neighbours who are on their way home now🪶♥️
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These are the people who blocked the swift brick amendment last night. 102 Labour Peers thanks to the rather extreme 3 line whip which just goes to show how much #Labour do NOT want to help nature let alone swifts. Normally a 3 line whip is used for fairly extreme amendments.
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Finally a glimmer of hope: Michael Gove has invited me for a 2nd meeting: He’s opened the door. Please continue to write, asking him to mandate #swift bricks 🪶🧱Thank you @ZacGoldsmith for remaining committed to saving swifts♥️We can do this but we must carry on asking.
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Someone asked me if I have a ritual I carry out when the swifts return. Generally I scream ‘woohooo!’ And beaming, run around outside shouting ‘the swifts have arrived!’ To make sure swifts always return home, sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition ➡️petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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These 2 women have broken my💔One is a role model in my 📕 about this campaign, her speech FOR swift bricks 2 years ago, extremely powerful. The other has supported from the start (she used to be the CEO of the RSPB!)
It’s gutting they voted AGAINST swift bricks. I believed them
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Meet Bart. He's been in non stop flight since last August. He'll return to Britain to breed in 2-3 years having not landed! He'll need a home, but we're blocking swift homes up + Bart's kind are on the brink. Sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition for Bart ⬇️🪶petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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I’ve woken up even more furious as I process what #Labour has done. A 3 line whip to ensure swift bricks are blocked after promising to do it? What a betrayal. People power will work. Email me at thefeatherspeech@gmail.com & you’ll get a template to amend & use
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A fleet of Japanese Long liners are lying in wait off the coast of Ireland for tuna who have been safe in British waters. With 000’s of hooks on lines that go on for kilometres, they’ll decimate the population of tuna. 💔
This represents an industrial scale, opportunistic plundering of a glorious and precious species that is on the brink of a comeback from near oblivion. Oceanic animals know no barriers, something we as global citizens must surely try to understand if there’s to be any hope @mcsuk
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Kittiwakes SOS. @northyorksc Council have added deterrents on Scarborough bridge stopping site loyal, red listed Kittiwakes, who face national extinction, from nesting. Contact them to ask why: myaccount.northyorks.gov.uk/…
Your voice CAN count.#birds
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ALT Pic by Mark Chamberlain, of Spa/Cliff bridge, Scarborough and the colony of Kittiwakes who live there. Their nests have been cleared. WHY?
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UPDATE:@BreweryRomford have listened to concerns, and are arranging for contractors to remove ALL these decorations below, by the weekend. (this petition helps sparrows and other red-listed birds with housing issues on a national scale: petition.parliament.uk/petit…) #EveryBirdCounts
Dear @BreweryRomford your decorations are blocking out red listed House sparrows from their homes. These birds face national extinction. Please consider them too by unwrapping one of the trees. I can provide you with a notice explaining to your customers why.
#conservation #SOS
ALT https://thebreweryromford.com/ 01708748157 PR contact Amie Pomfrett amie@almarketing.com 01707808166 Plastic wrapping with lights on 24/7 effecting House sparrows, who are trying to get back to their homes. A woman has spoken to the management already but they have said they will not change anything.
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1 year ago TODAY my swift brick petition closed with 110k signatures leading to a proposal supported by experts.
WHY no action?
'Apparently @RishiSunak doesn’t like the idea&has blocked it.' - @ZacGoldsmith
Our PM doesn't want to save our icons of summer from extinction.
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This swift left its exact nesting site here in August flying to Africa, spending 9 months on the wing. Journeying 8,000 miles, crossing the Sahara twice, it’s returned to find it BLOCKED. Swifts face national Exstinction + this bird may die trying. The homeowner doesn’t care.
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BAD NEWS💔if the vote had taken place earlier we would have won-Tories (majority) whipped YES but by the time of the vote, support had gone home just like 2 years ago. It is an AGONISING reality. Tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk what you think. GUTTED. Labour: what a betrayal 😡
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Check this out!!! These birds are not starlings. They are jackdaws!!! Just filmed, mouth open, delighted. They’re now in their cedar roost on the seafront, chattering away and I’m standing underneath them in awe. HOW COOL ARE THEY!!?! Grins!!
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#TheFeatherSpeech is a collaboration between leading scientists + artists supported by @Natures_Voice +@rwritextinction for swifts who need our help. #EveryBirdCounts (Film @blackmoreheal )
Sign the petition ➡️ petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries on 🌍 yet a 🧱is too much of a stretch for Labour to save our swifts.This symbolic 🎥 is for those who care that the existence of swifts is on the line.I hate campaigning but I’ll never give up on the birds.If you care,share🙏
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There’s something v wrong when someone with authority touts their opinion as fact.Lord Krebs, you say swift bricks don’t work & that swifts only nest higher than houses & only with open access.Err, have you been living under a rock?Our home is their home. @ZacGoldsmith
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3 years ago today!My gov petition became the fastest growing closing with 110k signatures.Labour said yes then blocked swift bricks with a 3line whip.If you care, act.The existence of swifts is on the line & Labour seems to hate birds.People power works.Join me to save our swifts
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#MouseInTheHouse update: I’ve still got the woodmouse guest as it has gone into a deep sleep within the toe of the slipper palace after busily redecorating the interior: a nest of leaves and a personal store of peanuts and a prized grape. I’ve set up a camera trap for pics 🤞🐭
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I asked the developer of this construction site to add swift bricks + they did😍Here are the village #HouseMartins collecting mud for their homes + circling the new swift bricks. Hopefully one day every house @neworbithomes builds will have a swift brick. ♥️🪶 #TheFeatherSpeech
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23 people on the beach walked past the ghost nets.I wanted to as well.I couldn’t be bothered.My jeans were soaked by the time I’d finished collecting all the nets.Why did I do it? The 136k seals sea lions& whales killed each year&the albatross.O the albatross 💔
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#TheFeatherSpeech commute. Standard Weekend gear. This is how much I want us to reach the 100,000 signature target so we can get one step closer to actually protecting swifts and our closest wild neighbours. We have a month left ⬇️petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Losing followers big time which is so sad as this platform hasn’t been toxic to me. It’s been a platform that connects fellow nature lovers, helped me raise awareness with politicians and raised my voice for birds.
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This is Bart the swift, just wishing you a happy week, and asking you with his eyes, like polished planets, to help him and his kind by signing #TheFeatherSpeech petition: petition.parliament.uk/petit… #EveryBirdCounts #conservation #nature #biodiversity
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📣WELCOME HOME!!!! THE VILLAGE SWIFTS HAVE RETURNED!📣♥️🪶♥️🪶 #TheFeatherSpeech 🤩help ensure they always come home ⬇️petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Swifts are as old as the Rocky Mountains, evolving 7 epochs ago. For 60 million years they've reigned the skies. Each year they fly for 6,500 hours nonstop yet when they come home they come home to us. That's why EVERYONE is asking YOU to save them @michaelgove🪶
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Zoe rescued + released this swift who, as a juvenile, will fly for up to 3 years before returning home ready to breed. By then, I want national legislation to include swift bricks to mitigate those destroyed by insulation Sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition ➡️petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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British icon, hilarious comic & bird-kind @BillBailey thinks securing homes for birds reliant on cavity nesting habitat is an ace idea. The swift brick debate is tomorrow. Help the birds. Email SWIFT BRICKS to steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk
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The #CotonOrchard trees have been condemned: On #internationalforestday - the same day as scientists announced ‘act now or it will be too late’ when it comes to the climate crisis, warning us ALL…Where is the #accountability? @CambsCC theguardian.com/environment/…
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Another nail in the ⚰️Labour have refused to mandate swift bricks while announcing the £13.2bn budget for insulation. I’ve explained how national scale insulation is destroying cavity nesting habitat without mitigating the loss & indirect mitigation with swift bricks would work.
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I AM my campaign+the vulnerability of being nude in public is the embodiment of how I feel as a campaigner.With @ZacGoldsmith by my side,he felt like a forcefield.This is what 10000s of us want @michaelgove to be for swifts: to protect their existence.With a brick!
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‼️The #Conservative government has just formally said NO to any action to secure urgent, vital nesting habitat. Please use your voice&vote to tell ALL MP candidates about the need to mandate swift bricks. Your voice is powerful right now. @ZacGoldsmith #WorldSwiftDay
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Is there a better tree? Every year I fall in love with the merry month of May and #HorseChestnuts are one of the main reasons why. #swoon #dreamy 🌳what’s your favourite tree?
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Sad to see this article getting instant negative remarks. On behalf of the most iconic bird on earth, and our closest wild neighbours, Thank You @guardian + @patrick_barkham for giving #TheFeatherSpeech +these birds airtime. #nature #recovery #birds #swift
theguardian.com/environment/…
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How many people, especially those 109,894 who signed #TheFeatherSpeech petition, feel betrayed by the gov+opposition? Thank you so much @CarolineLucas 🪶 as I sat behind you I felt the weight of swift feathers on my shoulders falling to the depths when they should be soaring🪶
Can't believe what I'm hearing. Swift bricks aren't even controversial. They're a cheap, easy way to restore our dwindling bird population. Yet neither Tory Minister, nor Lab opposition, will commit to make them mandatory. What planet are they on?? @Natures_Voice @WriterHannahBT
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Labour has betrayed our birds & ignored us.They’re digging the 🪦 of swifts in the greatest environment betrayal in a generation. Don’t let them get away with it. They put a 3 line whip on a simple brick! What sort of greedy monkey builders are they listening to? Please share.
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NEWS: Labour listened to the industry lobby. The builders are bragging that they blocked swift bricks! (Read why this is has made me enraged below in my comment) britbuild-magazine.co.uk/beh…
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Maybe if enough people share this video the @SheffieldStar will pick it up and maybe we can change the swift’s fate⬇️💔(it’s likely 2 pairs on 1 house)
This swift left its exact nesting site here in August flying to Africa, spending 9 months on the wing. Journeying 8,000 miles, crossing the Sahara twice, it’s returned to find it BLOCKED. Swifts face national Exstinction + this bird may die trying. The homeowner doesn’t care.
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Apparently I’m being over dramatic. This is 3 years of my life- it isn’t my job. I’ve done it solo & unfunded & we came SO close yday. Maybe we are a nation of stiff upper lips but one thing is true: only if we care will we act.
Living a nightmare. We haven’t got to the tipping point yet 3 years into the swift brick campaign. I hope you’re furious. Go see your MP. Please. People power will work. Tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk how you feel too. The govt has betrayed swifts.
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Extinction is happening. Who do we think we are. And this government won’t even mandate a brick with a hole in it despite it being fundemental to the life of a bird they’re inadvertently destroying the nesting habitat of.
Tragic. Preventable. Final.
The Slender-billed Curlew is officially extinct, declared today by the IUCN. On our watch.
We are technically brilliant and carelessly blind.
Sit with the silence. Then fight for what remains. #Extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #Curlews
@DavidGray
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One thousand people have followed me here in the last week. If you don’t know much about the swift brick campaign, I wrote a book about it called #NatureNeedsYou - The Fight To Save Our Swifts. It’s been a shocker of a ride so far but I will never give up. Why? I love birds.
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I made a bird paddling pool. Hard to film without scaring them but the birds are loving it. With no rain, this is a bit of a lifeline. If you do it, remember to ensure no one can accidentally drown / they can get out. Hedgehogs will be so grateful too for water they can access.
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The car in front of me just accidentally killed this fledgling blue tit. I couldn’t bear to leave it on the road. Please try to watch out for the little ones. They’re flitting out of verges happily until they collide with us.
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Share this if you want the House of Lords to SAVE OUR SWIFTS. Today Parliamentary peers will vote for or against swift bricks. Labour Peers will be whipped to vote NO, Lib Dem’s YES, & Tories can choose. 🤷♀️ COME ON THE LORDS!!!!!!!
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Well this platform is sinking. Are you staying? I am. Without this platform my petition to save a bird from national extinction would never have got the 100,000 signatures necessary. I would never have found political allies. We would never have built a voice for nature. Ironic.
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I can’t stop thinking about how messed up this is. They don’t care that they’ve undermined their integrity & the raging public concern. They don’t care about the birds. Are they in some sort of bubble with their glorious leader that the public have totally lost trust in?
These are the people who blocked the swift brick amendment last night. 102 Labour Peers thanks to the rather extreme 3 line whip which just goes to show how much #Labour do NOT want to help nature let alone swifts. Normally a 3 line whip is used for fairly extreme amendments.
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swifts are the fastest birds in level flight, with a top speed of 69mph... and they need your swift help to stop them from becoming nationally extinct. This is not an #AprilFools though I wish it were. Sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition ⬇️🪶petition.parliament.uk/petit… 📷@CarlBovisNature
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THEY ARE BACK! THE FIRST 4 SWIFTS HAVE RETURNED! #WELCOMEHOME #swifts
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Swifts so desperately need our help. How any nature advocate could ever vote against fundemental nesting habitat for one of the most rapidly declining birds with one of the lowest populations especially when swift bricks are simple is the worst kind of low. #TheTimes today, p.13
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EIGHTEEN MONTHS into my campaign. The proposal to add a swift brick requirement to Building Regulations is ready, approved & recommended by ALL experts. Without swift bricks there’s no guaranteed nesting habitat for swifts&there never will be. The govt CAN give them a future. ⏳
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Breaking news!The government has just voted against the same swift brick amendment they voted for 2 years ago. We can only save our swifts if we all act. Email your MP. Ask them to sign edm.parliament.uk/early-day-… MEET your MP. Tell them how much this matters or we’ll lose them
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Living a nightmare. We haven’t got to the tipping point yet 3 years into the swift brick campaign. I hope you’re furious. Go see your MP. Please. People power will work. Tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk how you feel too. The govt has betrayed swifts.
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We travel abroad, we visit museums and galleries, we dream of faraway places. But there are hedge banks HERE, ready to be marvelled: whole exquisite worlds of mosses and bluebells, of leaves as beautiful as cut glass, of greens of real plants, not painted. On. Our. Doorsteps.
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Hellllllloooo? Are you there? Please help birds by sharing this if you also want to ensure swifts & other urban birds have homes alongside us. People power works but only if we work together. SAVE OUR SWIFTS.
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The Lib Dem’s are going to vote FOR swift bricks on Monday! ♥️The govt is not. 😭….IF the Tory parliamentary peers, x benchers & ace rebel Labour Peers do, then swift brick amendment 245 will pass in the Lords. Grand Designs Kevin McCloud agrees: swift bricks should be mandated!
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SWALLOWS! WELCOME HOME!!!! Help House martins and swifts. Sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Is anyone else worried there is nowhere near enough public / nature outcry with regards to the absolutely devastating Planning and Infrastructure Bill? Anyone who cares personally and professionally should we doing all they can to STOP PART 3 OF THE BILL.
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No amount of online abuse (I've been told I deserve to be gang raped) will stop me from doing everything in my power to ask the govt to save swifts. @ZacGoldsmith & I remain hopeful that @michaelgove will act on HUGE support from scientists, public&anti-regulation Tories alike.
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A colony of swallows whose home for 7 years has been a garage, annually flying 8k miles back there, will today watch as their active nests are destroyed for hygiene reasons. If this had to happen, couldn't we wait until the chicks had fledged? Biodiversity 'loss' = destruction⬇️
Removal of swallows from Shrewsbury ambulance site 'misguided' bbc.in/3rCpOc1
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Help secure this #swift a home: ask your MP to take part in #TheFeatherSpeech debate to make swift bricks a national condition (petition.parliament.uk/petit…)
🪶Email me 🪶at thefeatherspeech@gmail.com with the name of your MP and I will brief you. #nature #recovery TELL EVERYONE
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Swifts leave our walls for Africa. Adults return to the same hole 9 months later *without having landed*🪶 Pairs reunite in our homes because our homes, are their homes❣️Facing national extinction, help them by signing #TheFeatherSpeech petition ⬇️petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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This is the amount of rubbish collected every fortnight by volunteers on one Welsh beach. If they don’t make regular collections, beach-goers pile their dog-poo bags onto the ghost nets and plastic. Sort of sums up two opposing sides of human nature.
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Back again. With my #swift brick which is now known by most of the security guards in the Houses of Parliament. ‘Oh it’s ok. That’s the swift brick woman and that’s her swift brick,’ they say to any suspicious colleagues yet to meet me and the brick 🧱 ‘she’s here all the time’
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BREAKING NEWS: SEEN MY 1ST SWIFT!
@rishisunak @michaelgove our neighbours have just flown for 9 months HOME! The rumour is you're blocking our campaign meaning YOU are blocking their homes & existence
Read the room
Have a word with yourselves
#swifts UNITE us
#MAYDAY #MAYDAY
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Urgent: we have until TONIGHT to sign this petition to try to save these orchards in Cambridge as tomorrow 21st March, @CambsCC will decide if they'll go against everything we need, and fell them. change.org/p/save-the-green-…
more info: theguardian.com/environment/…
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Apparently swift bricks are just too costly. Sorry guys, swifts& their 50 million year old existence& the category of most accessible urban birds, just isn’t worth the cost. Bye bye birdies. If you disagree tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk
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Swift eggs are laid in May. By August, the young birds fly: a maiden journey lasting 2-3 years without landing. As babies they snuggle + winnow like this, inches away from where we sleep, sharing our walls. Help them Sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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🤩COME ON! (📣Cheering like I’m watching a race. Because it is a race!) 💥we’ve got 26 days to get to 100k for the swifts. 📣Keep spreading the word so new people can sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition.parliament.uk/petit… 📣🪶
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The government has responded to #TheFeatherSpeech petition. The message is clear: we need to build a swift army, 100,000 people strong for these iconic birds. We need to go into strategic, fact-based battle. Nature lovers, swifts need YOU. #conservation petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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74 THOUSAND signatures! The birds need 26k more in 29 days to get their voice heard in parliament. Help them. Sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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This year our swift population will reduce by an estimated TEN THOUSAND breeding birds &/ the population will lose its ability to replenish itself by up to 15,000 chicks. The govt is ignoring #swifts plight despite a simple, urgent & essential solution backed by all experts.
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It’s almost crunch time. Next week Peers will vote for or against swift bricks. To help swifts, please email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏
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🪶🪶🪶*breaking bird news* 🪶🪶🪶#TheFeatherSpeech petition debate has been confirmed by @HoCpetitions and will be held at 4.30pm, Westminster Hall, Parliament on 10th July. #PassionIsASuperpower #Woohooooo
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Swifts have existed for 70 MILLION years, yet now face national extinction. We're blocking their homes, the gov's Eco scheme insulating 4 million+ houses+ ignoring 4 endangered birds who share our walls. Help them. Sign #TheFeatherSpeech petition.parliament.uk/petit…📷@CarlBovisNature
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Fear not. For those who think our campaign to save #swifts is over, on the contrary it is alive and KICKING. WHOSE WITH ME?
1 year ago TODAY my swift brick petition closed with 110k signatures leading to a proposal supported by experts.
WHY no action?
'Apparently @RishiSunak doesn’t like the idea&has blocked it.' - @ZacGoldsmith
Our PM doesn't want to save our icons of summer from extinction.
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29 years wild after a triumphant start as a reintroduction chick. Aragon, I wish I had known to wonder whether it was you when your kind circle above. Soar high. birdguides.com/news/oldest-k…
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Hot weather alert: #SwiftAwarenessWeek - if you see a swift (of any age) on the ground, it needs help as it won’t be able to take off from the ground even if it looks like it’s developed enough to fly. They need expert help so if you find one, tell me so I can connect you to help
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SWIFTS ARE ARRIVING HOME!
Celebrate your first swift sighting by posting on here and tagging me & Michael Gove - if he knows how many of us are DELIGHTED by their return, maybe he will act & greenlight the ready-and-waiting proposal to secure their essential nesting habitat!
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the brand new Labour MP @SimonforStroud made a fantastic impression tonight. If my gut is right (& most of my campaign is based on my gut instinct (&facts)) the birds have found an ACE champion in Parliament. Will it be Dr Simon Opher who save swifts in the Commons?
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I LOVE #SWIFTS - go out and spy them yourselves - they are descending on towns and villages across the UK in their iconic #screamingparties RIGHT NOW! #SwiftAwarenessWeek #LookUp #Summer #Conservation @BBCSouthNews @david_lumb1 @Natures_Voice @_BTO @WildlifeTrusts
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I’ve lost & gained followers so just putting it out there: I’m here for birds & nature.
Seeking to connect with nature lovers & to engage people in how we can help save the birds who rely on our buildings to breed.
In other words: Im Hannah & I like birds.
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It's 2 degrees. Sunset was half an hour ago....But in a few months the swifts will return, bringing summer with them. Help protect our icons of summer by sharing + signing #TheFeatherSpeech petition ⬇️🪶petition.parliament.uk/petit… #nature #conservation #birds
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‘What if I fall?’ 🪶 ‘Oh, but darling, what if you fly?’ 🪶 🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶♥️Thank you for your supportive comments in response to hatred♥️
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Anyone: what you thinking about?
Me: swifts Soon they’ll be gone, this year’s chicks beginning a maiden flight lasting up to 3 years. By next year the UK’s breeding population will have declined by an estimated 10k. They need @UKLabour to mandate swift bricks
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