The community has rallied to support nature by installing swift boxes and letting grass grow.
St Giles in Risby, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, has allowed grass to grow tall in the churchyard to support insects and butterflies, and encouraged swifts to nest, among a plethora of measures to give nature a helping hand.
The church's environmental officer Jackie Orbell: "It's been very much about working with our community; it's been fantastic.""I thought I would just be pottering around the churchyard and creating habitats but it's so much bigger than that," she added. Those involved in the church then fitted swift boxes and set up a system playing swift calls to encourage the birds to nest and then return to the same spot when they migrate from African each spring.
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