In England Swifts are having to take sterner measures... #swiftbricks
January 28, 2026 at 9:43 AM
In England Swifts are having to take sterner measures... #swiftbricks
Now talking a very good #biodiversity cause: #swiftbricks.
Talking about amendment to Planning and Infrastructure Bill
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social
Talking about amendment to Planning and Infrastructure Bill
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Now talking a very good #biodiversity cause: #swiftbricks.
Talking about amendment to Planning and Infrastructure Bill
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social
Talking about amendment to Planning and Infrastructure Bill
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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 MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
January 28, 2026 at 12:14 AM
And that has just rejected #SwiftBricks - a modest amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that would have ensured a future for beautiful birds for whom a place to nest is a matter of life and death
Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
And that has just rejected #SwiftBricks - a modest amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that would have ensured a future for beautiful birds for whom a place to nest is a matter of life and death
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 MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
January 28, 2026 at 8:39 AM
This #cartoon about #swifts taking the #law into their own wings didn't find a home. (Much like many swifts, sadly.) Still thought it worth sharing though. #swiftbricks #legislation #birds #wildlife #habitats
June 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This #cartoon about #swifts taking the #law into their own wings didn't find a home. (Much like many swifts, sadly.) Still thought it worth sharing though. #swiftbricks #legislation #birds #wildlife #habitats
Looking forward to amending the Natural Environment Bill to tackle the nature emergency and give wild animals a home #swiftbricks #redsquirrels #lynx
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Looking forward to amending the Natural Environment Bill to tackle the nature emergency and give wild animals a home #swiftbricks #redsquirrels #lynx
I’ve just written to my MP (again) regarding @WriterHannahBT action for mandating swift bricks in new builds . I reminded him that swifts fly over his offices and used to nest nearby . Send an e mail to yours . Use Hannah’s template thefeatherspeech@gmail.com or make it personal
March 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Well this is odd & unfounded: @HannahBourneTaylor.bsky.social has had her account & posts labelled with a content warning 🤷🏼♀️
Campaigning to save our beloved bird - Swifts 🪶 - by asking for #SwiftBricks to be required in all new builds.
How does this warrant moderator action. A BlueSky glitch??
Campaigning to save our beloved bird - Swifts 🪶 - by asking for #SwiftBricks to be required in all new builds.
How does this warrant moderator action. A BlueSky glitch??
November 15, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Well this is odd & unfounded: @HannahBourneTaylor.bsky.social has had her account & posts labelled with a content warning 🤷🏼♀️
Campaigning to save our beloved bird - Swifts 🪶 - by asking for #SwiftBricks to be required in all new builds.
How does this warrant moderator action. A BlueSky glitch??
Campaigning to save our beloved bird - Swifts 🪶 - by asking for #SwiftBricks to be required in all new builds.
How does this warrant moderator action. A BlueSky glitch??
Great to see Dr Daniel Allen’s swift article and his mention of the swift brick campaign. For more info about swifts and how we can save them, preorder my book NATURE NEEDS YOU (you’ll get it before it’s out in the shops!) blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
April 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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 MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM
How much do you love swifts? Enough to email your MP this link, simply asking them to sign it? edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
It’s an EDM which is like a petition just for MPs & it’s v important as many as possible sign ✍️. Easy & quick for MPs to do!
It’s an EDM which is like a petition just for MPs & it’s v important as many as possible sign ✍️. Easy & quick for MPs to do!
April 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
By the way, if you look up at Arthur’s Seat when you walk out of the Scottish Parliament then you will often see the resident Peregrine Falcons … circling, watching and waiting.
Great news on the #SwiftBricks
Great news on the #SwiftBricks
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 AM
By the way, if you look up at Arthur’s Seat when you walk out of the Scottish Parliament then you will often see the resident Peregrine Falcons … circling, watching and waiting.
Great news on the #SwiftBricks
Great news on the #SwiftBricks
Great news from Scotland: a LAW to ensure new buildings have swift bricks. (Contrary to Labour spin, there is no law and no guarantees that builders or planners will incorporate bricks in England.)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law
Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Our village street used to be a-shriek with swifts.
Today, there isn't a single one.
Please ask your MP to support the Swift Brick amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.
#SwiftBricks #MandateForSwiftBricks
#SwiftsNeedUs #NatureNeedsYou
Today, there isn't a single one.
Please ask your MP to support the Swift Brick amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.
#SwiftBricks #MandateForSwiftBricks
#SwiftsNeedUs #NatureNeedsYou
June 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our village street used to be a-shriek with swifts.
Today, there isn't a single one.
Please ask your MP to support the Swift Brick amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.
#SwiftBricks #MandateForSwiftBricks
#SwiftsNeedUs #NatureNeedsYou
Today, there isn't a single one.
Please ask your MP to support the Swift Brick amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.
#SwiftBricks #MandateForSwiftBricks
#SwiftsNeedUs #NatureNeedsYou
In the 18th century, forward looking architects built classical obelisks as permanent Pondering Posts for Heronkind.
A consideration humankind could apply again, alongside the Swiftbricks and House Martin nest cups. 🏡 🧱🪺🕍
A consideration humankind could apply again, alongside the Swiftbricks and House Martin nest cups. 🏡 🧱🪺🕍
May 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
In the 18th century, forward looking architects built classical obelisks as permanent Pondering Posts for Heronkind.
A consideration humankind could apply again, alongside the Swiftbricks and House Martin nest cups. 🏡 🧱🪺🕍
A consideration humankind could apply again, alongside the Swiftbricks and House Martin nest cups. 🏡 🧱🪺🕍
Everyone - there’s bit of HOPE in the form of OPPORTUNITY!! Some good-egg Labour MPs are meeting Minister of Housing next month to talk swift bricks. PLEASE ask your MP to help.
Easy- just email me at thefeatherspeech@gmail.com to receive an email template to amend & send them
Easy- just email me at thefeatherspeech@gmail.com to receive an email template to amend & send them
February 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Political commentators are struck by the scale of support for #swiftbricks, birds seemingly more important than people, and to many of us it does seem a very strange hill for Lab0ur to die on, should consider the possibility that people take it as an indicator of a deeper moral chasm....
May 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Political commentators are struck by the scale of support for #swiftbricks, birds seemingly more important than people, and to many of us it does seem a very strange hill for Lab0ur to die on, should consider the possibility that people take it as an indicator of a deeper moral chasm....
Brilliant to see the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast on @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
#SwiftBricks
As @iolowilliams.bsky.social says...shouldn't we have swifts bricks on every new build in the country?
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social
#SwiftBricks
As @iolowilliams.bsky.social says...shouldn't we have swifts bricks on every new build in the country?
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Brilliant to see the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast on @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
#SwiftBricks
As @iolowilliams.bsky.social says...shouldn't we have swifts bricks on every new build in the country?
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social
#SwiftBricks
As @iolowilliams.bsky.social says...shouldn't we have swifts bricks on every new build in the country?
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social
Can we hope that any changes include #swiftbricks and solar gain roofing? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Environmental rules reviewed for small housebuilders
Ministers are considering how costs can be reduced for small firms to help them build more homes.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Can we hope that any changes include #swiftbricks and solar gain roofing? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
1/2 Presenting at #BOU2026 our paper on the debate on mandating #swiftbricks in the UK as a case of #Multispecies #Justice & #Sustainability #conservationscience #BirdEcon project
Paper published in npj Urban Sustainability: doi.org/10.1038/s429...
Context: martinew.canalblog.com/archives/202...
Paper published in npj Urban Sustainability: doi.org/10.1038/s429...
Context: martinew.canalblog.com/archives/202...
April 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
1/2 Presenting at #BOU2026 our paper on the debate on mandating #swiftbricks in the UK as a case of #Multispecies #Justice & #Sustainability #conservationscience #BirdEcon project
Paper published in npj Urban Sustainability: doi.org/10.1038/s429...
Context: martinew.canalblog.com/archives/202...
Paper published in npj Urban Sustainability: doi.org/10.1038/s429...
Context: martinew.canalblog.com/archives/202...
I do not understand the reason Labour would vote against #SwiftBricks ?
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I do not understand the reason Labour would vote against #SwiftBricks ?
Why have both the last two governments acting directly and in full knowledge to damage the chances of our swifts surving as a species WHYWHY WHY? Who is pulling their strings? Swift bricks are win win These politicians will NEVER have my vote after this
#swiftbricks #extinction #birds #politicians
#swiftbricks #extinction #birds #politicians
May 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Why have both the last two governments acting directly and in full knowledge to damage the chances of our swifts surving as a species WHYWHY WHY? Who is pulling their strings? Swift bricks are win win These politicians will NEVER have my vote after this
#swiftbricks #extinction #birds #politicians
#swiftbricks #extinction #birds #politicians