Water tower could soon be a hotel for dwindling number of swifts

Southwold water tower, soon to be home to a colony of swifts. Credit: ITV Anglia

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A new set of speakers playing Swift bird call sounds will help to find some new residents for the 16 nesting boxes that have been recently installed on Essex & Suffolk Water’s Southwold water tower.

The playing of call sounds during June and July has been proved to be verysuccessful for attracting Swifts into new nesting boxes.

Swift numbers have halved in the last 20 years due to a loss of their favourite nesting sites. Old buildings are being demolished and roofs being repaired so there are fewer holes for them to tuck away in.