Comment on This Retired UK Salesman Built Homes for 60,000 Beloved Swifts

Emily Hofstaedter, Mother Jones
Sat, 01/22/2022 - 4:00am

This Retired UK Salesman Built Homes for 60,000 Beloved Swifts

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Retired salesman John Stimpson just turned 80. He celebrated the occasion with a cake at Slimming World, followed by dinner with his family. Stimpson had one achievement in particular to mark: He has just completed his goal of building 30,000 swift boxes, which could house half of the UK’s breeding population of 60,000 pairs. Stimpson has been making these peculiarly shaped boxes for 13 years using three saws and three drills in his garage attached to his bungalow near Ely in Cambridgeshire.

 

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