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Jan 93 min read
Swift Towers in Hampshire
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...
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Jan 11 min read
Cumberland Museum of Natural History, Portsmouth
Hampshire Swifts had our 9-board Exhibition on display in the Portsmouth Natural History Museum for about five months until the start of...
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Dec 20, 20244 min read
Lost Nature: Do House Builders deliver?
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...
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Dec 10, 20243 min read
Update on Swift Nest Boxes in Highcliffe, Winchester 2024
Highcliffe in Winchester has been an area of special interest to Hampshire Swifts ever since 2018. That year, during a survey of swift...
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Nov 16, 20242 min read
Winchester Cathedral Update 2024
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...
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Oct 18, 20242 min read
Lymington Business Centre
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....
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Sep 25, 20242 min read
More from Lee-on-Solent
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...
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Sep 19, 20241 min read
New Milton Estate Survey 2024
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...
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Sep 2, 20242 min read
Wells Cathedral Swift boxes
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...
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Aug 27, 20241 min read
Swift boxes on Stannah Lifts in Andover
Stannah Lifts was founded over 150 years ago and they now provide passenger, platform, goods & service lifts as well as moving walkways...
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Jul 9, 20242 min read
Lee-on-Solent update
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...
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Jul 3, 20242 min read
New Swift boxes on 6th Form Colleges
Hampshire Swifts has recently installed lots of Swift boxes on two Colleges here in Hampshire. The first were at Peter Symonds 6th Form...
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Jun 21, 20243 min read
Hampshire Swifts install Swift boxes on Farmer Cluster
Hampshire Swifts have installed 31 nest boxes and 8 call players on the Allenford and Martin Down Farmer Clusters, south and south-west...
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Mar 25, 20242 min read
New Swift boxes on All Saints CE School, Winchester
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...
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Jan 21, 20243 min read
Bishops Waltham
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...
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Jan 3, 20242 min read
A new house with Swift boxes
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...
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Dec 28, 20231 min read
Lee-on-Solent Swifts update
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...
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Dec 18, 20232 min read
The Swift population on the New Milton Estate
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...
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Dec 14, 20231 min read
Southsea colony update
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...
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Nov 15, 20233 min read
Highcliffe, Winchester – a Swift ‘Hot Spot’
The Highcliffe area of Winchester includes two areas of Council housing built primarily between the First and Second World Wars, and a...
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Jan 93 min read
Swift Towers in Hampshire
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...
561 views1 comment
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Jan 11 min read
Cumberland Museum of Natural History, Portsmouth
Hampshire Swifts had our 9-board Exhibition on display in the Portsmouth Natural History Museum for about five months until the start of...
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