Discover the secrets of the Swift with Julia Cowley from the Stretton Area Wildlife Group
16th July at 7.30pm in the library. Admission £5.00
The Common Swift (Apus apus) has graced our skies for millions of years. These remarkable birds spend almost their entire lives on the wing – feeding, mating, even sleeping in flight – and touch the ground only to nest.
Each year, swifts return from Africa to breed in the very places they were born. Many of us delight in watching them swoop and soar over Church Stretton on warm summer evenings.
But swifts are now critically endangered due to the loss of their breeding habitat and the global decline in insect populations – their only source of food.
Join Julie Cowley from the Stretton Area Wildlife Group at the Library on Wednesday 16 July at 7.30pm for a fascinating talk about these ancient aerial acrobats, learn how dependent they are on us, and what we can do to help them.
Admission: £5 on the door
All proceeds go to support the Library.