The Owl Crew have been on top form! 🦉💪 Four more barn owl boxes are up in brilliant locations. A fantastic team, a few ladders and tools, plus essential cake! 🍰😂 Another great day helping Suffolk’s barn owls. 🦉❤️ @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

What a brilliant weekend at Framlingham Country Show! 🦉 So many great chats, new contacts and shared love of birds. Lovely catching up with Martin on House Martins, Eddie on Swifts and Pete Merchant on Peregrines. A top weekend! 🐦 @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @sosswifts.bsky.social

Two ospreys seen over Hazelwood Marshes yesterday with Kev Heath, but no sign of the juvenile black stork @birdguides.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #UKbirding.

Suffolk Bird Group will be at the Framlingham Country Show! 🦉🐦 Pop by for a chat about what we do, from Barn Owls, House Martins and Swifts to our other projects. Come and say hello, find out how you can get involved… and enjoy a brilliant day out while you’re here! 🌿🦉 @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

The Owl Crew have been brilliant today, working their socks off to get another 4 boxes up as part of our Sizewell mitigation project! 🦉💪 — another four potential new homes for Suffolk’s barn owls, and another great bit of teamwork! 🌿 @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @duncanrford.bsky.social

Was privileged to see a male and female Honey Buzzard this morning at Marsh Lane, Worlingham, thanks to Andrew Easton for finding them late yesterday and my brother Barry for the photos, they eventually flew NW into Norfolk

Happy Owl Awareness Day! 🦉 If you’re lucky enough to spot a Barn Owl, we’d love to hear about it. Every sighting you send in helps us build a clearer picture of how Barn Owls are faring across Suffolk. Please keep those sightings coming! 💚 @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @waveneybirdclub.bsky.social

Black storks Kessingland 04/08/2026 Species 125 for the garden - well overdue as I have been away for three previous singles. #birds Tracked by the BINS and local WhatsApp groups north along the Suffolk coast and up into Norfolk. @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @lowestoftlizards.bsky.social

Another two Barn Owl boxes up today as part of our Sizewell mitigation project! 🦉 A huge thank you to our brilliant volunteers for all their hard work. Every box gives the next generation another chance. 🦉💚 @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @duncanrford.bsky.social

Come and say hello tomorrow! 🦉 We’ll be at the British Birds themed event talking all things Barn Owls and the work of Suffolk Bird Group. Come and have a chat, ask us your birdy questions, and find out how you can help wildlife in Suffolk. We’d love to see you! 🦉🪶 @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

Not sure if it properly words as a trifecta, but anyway an early southbound Bar-tail took us up to three 'wits on the river yesterday. #BirdArt

We’ve been kept busy by an incredible baby owlet boom! But we’re also finding time to start installing the first nest boxes for our Sizewell mitigation project, providing new nesting opportunities & habitat to help replace what’s been lost. 🦉🌿 @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @duncanrford.bsky.social

6 Swift nest boxes & a call system have gone to The Green Dragon pub in Bungay, both late greats Steve Piotrowski & Paddy Shaw blew the froth off a few beers here in their time. They did much for conservation, it was their idea for a swift walk, talk and a pint, both are sadly missed #SuffolkBirding

Both Swift nest boxes installed in 2017 in Blaxhall are now occupied. Thanks to a very generous legacy SOSSwifts have donated another 4 nest boxes for there, a super opportunity to create another very significant Swift colony @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding

2 Swift boxes funded by Coasts/Heaths NL here in Southwold are now used. The easiest way to boost local Swift populations is to add more nesting space, so 10 further nest boxes have been donated to create a significant colony @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding

The first of the 10 Swiftlets here in my camera nest boxes fledged yesterday morning, followed by a sibling this morning. @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social The 3rd chick in this nest box is still being attended by both parents. Swift conservation works #SuffolkBirding

Apologies for straying off topic but @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social also provide nest boxes for Suffolk’s rarer breeding species that will take to them. Fantastic to hear that Spotted Flycatchers have taken to one recently fitted and have young close to fledging. #SuffolkBirding

No signs of Swifts using these nest boxes on the Constable Health Centre in East Bergholt. House Sparrows are breeding here though & this species is red-listed too, their behaviour can help Swifts find a nest site too @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding

Swift Swift update, now an 8th box here with Swifts going in and out. Very recent I think, if so very unlikely to be breeding but bodes very well for 2027. Less bonkers screaming behaviour this morning, maybe as cooler and cloudy with the breeze. #SuffolkBirding @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

7 Swift nest boxes along with a 240V call system have been installed on the Quakers Meeting House in #Leiston, Suffolk. SOSSwifts have more Community Sets available for prominent elevations of public buildings around Suffolk @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding

JT, our volunteer nest box maker with another car load for Suffolk. The flat lidded Swift box is one of 10 going to #Southwold to add to a budding colony. SOSSwifts have also just delivered 3 boxes to #Nayland & 6 to #Lavenham for colonies there too @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding

It’s been a fantastic barn owl season so far! 🦉 If you have a barn owl nest box and haven’t yet had a visit from one of our volunteer monitors, please get in touch so we can make sure it’s included. Every record counts! @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @waveneybirdclub.bsky.social

Debenham is bonkers with Swifts currently & Trevor Stutter has captured this image of a busy nest box, one of many used in the town. Adding nest boxes where Swifts breed helps boost local populations, these are on the church @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding

Trip to Cattawade, Suffolk this morning with Kev and Karen Heath for the adult male Hudsonian godwit @birdguides.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social.

How nice- not as exciting as a new c-ring combo, but after more than 50 years on and off watching godwits at Stutton Mill something interesting has popped up. If it sticks, will prob feed on Essex shore on the falling tide, back to Suffolk a couple of hours after low tide and into roost.#UKbirding

Swift conservation works but can take time. This location was far from an existing colony but installed nest boxes & played calls May-July for several years until found. There is no reason why it can’t be repeated anywhere. #SuffolkBirding @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

Great to be able to confirm that the 7th occupied Swift box here does have young, I can now hear quiet chirruping when a parent returns with food. This box was repeatedly banged last year then briefly occupied last July. @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding

When a plan comes together, we put 4 barn Owl boxes up around the farm. Yesterday Roger and Jade from the Waveney Bird Club checked them out. 3 young males were ringed from this box. @waveneybirdclub.bsky.social @sbgbarnowls.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @birdergranty.bsky.social

Great to see these Swift nest boxes on Old Newton Primary School today, near #Stowmarket, decorated by their pupils. House Sparrows are exploring them, they’re red-lasted too and can light the way for Swifts to find them @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding

A Swift Community Set has been donated to #Clopton Village Hall where the 6 boxes + 240V call system will be mounted on a suitable high elevation where there is a clear line of flight. SOSSwifts has more Sets available. @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding