Welcome to residents of areas around Devonshire, Adamsrill and Lowther Hill Roads!

We've been leafleting specific roads in Forest Hill, Sydenham and Honor Oak and have had a great response.

We created two leaflets to promote Lewisham Swifts.  An A6 leaflet lists our contact details (Kilmorie Road residents may recognise that leaflet!) and an A5 'Swift spotters' leaflet explains a bit about swifts and asks people to report swift sightings to us.

Originally we intended to use the 'Swift spotters' leaflets to target a broad audience and help build a picture of where swifts were being seen across a wide area.  But the hot weather made the idea of standing at train stations etc handing leaflets to disinterested passers-by seem less appealing.

Fortunately we had received a few leads about nest sites (a nest in Adamsrill Road had been logged on the RSPB Swift Survey map, and there were reports via social media of nests in Devonshire/Tyson Road and Lowther Hill).  So we decided to leaflet homes in those immediate areas (still arduous work in hot weather but at least you can choose a cooler time of day).

And what a response we had!  The 'owner' of the nest in Adamsrill Road got in touch; the next-door neighbour of a nest in Tyson Road gave us some house numbers in Devonshire Road to investigate; and we've had lots of enthusiastic reports of sightings (particularly from the Adamsrill Road area - they're obviously a swift-friendly bunch down there).

So now we have to build on that information and enthusiasm to work towards protecting existing nests and encouraging neighbours to install new ones, and hopefully grow the size of the colonies.  Which makes leafleting in 30 degree temperatures the easy bit.  Now the hard work really begins!