Winchester, the ancient capital of England and the county town of Hampshire, has been an important site for human settlement since the...

At the start of 2024 there were three Swift towers in Hampshire. The most successful of these has been the one at Kingsworthy that was...

Hampshire Swifts had our 9-board Exhibition on display in the Portsmouth Natural History Museum for about five months until the start of...

It was back in March that we visited the Cala Homes development site in Alton. Construction work was still going on at that time, though...

Highcliffe in Winchester has been an area of special interest to Hampshire Swifts ever since 2018.  That year, during a survey of swift...

Twenty Swift boxes were installed in the bell tower of Winchester Cathedral in August 2020. That was four years ago and you can read how...

Back in 2018, 28 new Swift nest sites were created in the eaves of Lymington Business Centre where there is an existing colony of Swifts....

Mark Wagstaff has given a further update on his colony in Lee-on-Solent: Trevor and Simon returned towards the end of July and ringed the...

Grateful thanks to Bob Lord and his crew of Swift surveyors for all the time that they have put into surveying the North Milton Estate in...

We don’t often stray out of county, but we were contacted by Simon Nash from Wells to ask advice about whether it might be possible to...

Stannah Lifts was founded over 150 years ago and they now provide passenger, platform, goods & service lifts as well as moving walkways...

Here is a lovely update, dated 25 June, from Mark Wagstaff about his Swift colony in Lee-on-Solent on the south coast. You can read the...

Hampshire Swifts has recently installed lots of Swift boxes on two Colleges here in Hampshire. The first were at Peter Symonds 6th Form...

Hampshire Swifts have installed 31 nest boxes and 8 call players on the Allenford and Martin Down Farmer Clusters, south and south-west...

Installing Swift boxes on this Primary School at Highcliffe in Winchester has been on our ‘to do’ list for some time, but recently it has...

Bishop's Waltham is a medieval market town situated at the source of the River Hamble in Hampshire. It has a foot in the South Downs...

Back in mid-September last year I went with Rachel Hardy to the 2023 Wilder Conference and Awards organised by the Hampshire and Isle of...

Back in August while we were in Lee-on-Solent I called in on Mark Wagstaff to say hello and to see the location of his Swift colony. You...

Last year we reported that the Swift population at the North Milton Estate in SW Hampshire was close to its maximum given the number of...

Dave Warner now has 11 breeding pairs of Swifts on his house in Southsea from a total of 12 boxes, eight on the front and four on the...