Swift population on New Milton estate continues to grow
This is now the third year of surveying the Swifts and other nesting birds at the North Milton estate, and follows our previous blogs on...
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Nov 11, 20221 min read
The Feather Speech
Nature author and conservationist, Hannah Bourne-Taylor, launched a petition to protect swifts by delivering The Feather Speech in...
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Oct 16, 20222 min read
Saving Hampshire’s Swifts – Village by Village
The village of Abbotts Ann lies just to the west of where I live in north-west Hampshire. I’ve known there is a small colony of Swifts...
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Oct 11, 20222 min read
Hospital of St Cross update
Our last update one year ago detailed the eight nesting pairs of Swifts that had been encouraged to nest at the Hospital of St Cross,...
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Oct 7, 20221 min read
The Feather Speech - a national conservation campaign for swifts
On Saturday 5th November nature author and conservationist, Hannah Bourne-Taylor, will launch a petition to protect swifts by delivering...
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Oct 3, 20221 min read
More homes for Swifts at St Michaels Church, Cheriton
Swifts have nested at Cheriton Church for a long time, just as they have in many churches around the country. A small number, just three...
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Sep 13, 20222 min read
Swifts don’t always nest in houses
It is well known that a small number of Common Swifts, Apus apus, do not nest in houses or churches. In the old Caledonian Pine forests...
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Jun 23, 20223 min read
Saving Hampshire’s Swifts – Volunteers Needed
We are making a difference – a huge difference in some areas. And little by little in many places the Swift population is starting to...
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May 7, 20223 min read
More on Urban Birds
Roger and I always make note of which urban birds are nesting where while we are putting up Swift boxes. On Friday last week our first...
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Apr 11, 20221 min read
How much space does a Swift need to nest?
Not a lot it would seem! I was recently sent some photos by Nik Knight, Chairman of the Hampshire Bat Group (for whom I recently did a...
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Mar 29, 20222 min read
Cala Homes Thames launches first Urban Wildlife Strategy
Cala Homes Thames has launched its Urban Wildlife Strategy, which outlines its intention to incorporate biodiversity improvement measures...
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Mar 15, 20222 min read
It need not be bad news when fascias & soffits are replaced
Debbie Tann, CEO of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, has had a pair of Swifts nesting at the front of her house for many years...
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Jan 12, 20223 min read
Wherwell - the Start of a Swift Colony
In 2017 we were asked by Tom to install some Swift boxes on a house in the centre of Wherwell. There were only two known pairs of Swifts,...
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Nov 21, 20212 min read
Winchester Cathedral - the Start of a Swift Colony
The installation of Swift boxes on Winchester Cathedral, generously funded by Birds on the Brink, was delayed a bit last year due to...
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Nov 11, 20212 min read
Great news in Highcliffe, Winchester
Back in 2018, Winchester City Council were carrying out extensive re-roofing works on their Council-owned stock of properties. Following...
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Nov 4, 20211 min read
Good results in Regents Park, Southampton
Ron Cooke has now sent in his records from the Swift boxes within his core area of Regents Park, Southampton. He takes his boxes down at...
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Oct 20, 20211 min read
Great work for Swifts in Southsea
Just a quick update on the wooden boxes that Dave Warner has installed on and near his home in Southsea over the last few years. Dave...
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Oct 12, 20211 min read
Another great result in Winchester…
For the last three years we have been putting up Model 30 Swift boxes in the Fulflood area of the City. We have now put up 27 boxes in...
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Oct 6, 20213 min read
Dear BTO - part 3
Hospital of St Cross Update - October 2021 At the end of each nesting season we go back to the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, to check...
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Sep 20, 20215 min read
Dear BTO - part 2
Following our earlier blog about the BTO website which you can read here - and the earlier pdf which is linked on that blog - I have...
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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 182 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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