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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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Sep 17, 20211 min read
Swift population grows on New Milton estate
Following on from the results of the 2020 survey of the North Milton estate for Swifts and other urban birds, which we covered on our...
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Jul 29, 20212 min read
Unexpected nest sites at the Hospital of St Cross
We got a surprise when we got reports of swifts nesting underneath some of the nest boxes we installed on the Hospital of St Cross.
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Jul 21, 20212 min read
New swift bricks fitted in Emsworth
Last September I received a call about a new Doctor’s Surgery that was being built in Emsworth. Malinda Griffin told me that the...
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Jul 15, 20211 min read
Calling all residents of Winchester City Council
Our last blog https://bit.ly/3rc7eTQ examined exactly what Winchester City Council (WCC) are doing to conserve Swifts and other declining...
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Jul 15, 20218 min read
How Swift-friendly is Winchester City Council?
Introduction Previous Hampshire Swift blogs (https://bit.ly/2TdKx5c; https://bit.ly/3ra4A11; https://bit.ly/3fWavmD) have highlighted the...
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May 13, 20216 min read
Cala Homes. An Opportunity for Redemption
A previous blog highlighted the absurdly low number of Swift nest sites planned for the Cala Homes development at the Kings Barton site,...
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May 9, 20214 min read
Cala Homes – meaningless words, and still no commitment.
Following the last blog about Cala Homes and the missing Swift bricks, Geraldine Buchanan wrote to Cala Homes expressing her concern...
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Apr 7, 20215 min read
Cala Homes, the Kings Barton development and the case of the missing swift bricks
The 2000 home Cala development at Kings Barton in Winchester will include a derisory 20 Swift boxes (estimated), corresponding to a density
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Nov 28, 20201 min read
Freshwater Fields
Caroline Dudley has done a nice write-up of the history and subsequent surveys of the Freshwater Fields development on the Isle of Wight...
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Nov 11, 20203 min read
A rosy future for Swifts at the Hospital of St Cross
What a shame that the many events normally staged at the Hospital of St Cross to raise vital funds couldn't be held this year due to the...
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Oct 20, 20202 min read
Mill House Business Centre
As a result of the review of a large number of planning applications by our team of enthusiastic Hampshire Swift-ers we became aware that...
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Oct 8, 20204 min read
We know all about the "r" rate but what about the "occupation" or "o" rate..?
In a previous blog (“COVID-19: opportunity knocks..”) we asked the million dollar question: “how many of the thousand or so Swift boxes...
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Oct 2, 20201 min read
10 years after?
Most Swift groups focus on protecting existing nest sites and providing additional nest sites for Swifts. The nature of Swift...
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Sep 12, 20203 min read
A Tale of Swifts in Winchester
My name is Mary and when I moved to Winchester in the early 2000s, I delighted in the swifts. They seemed to arrive in late April and...
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Sep 1, 20203 min read
Winchester Cathedral
Following a meeting last year between the Reverend Canon Roland Reim, Vice-Dean of Winchester Cathedral and Andy Broadhurst and Prof....
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Jul 5, 20206 min read
Screaming Joy
To conclude our series of blogs for Swifts Awareness Week... The first thing I should do is introduce myself, because I feel like I know...
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Jul 3, 20202 min read
Swifts are Weird
A blog for Swift Awareness Week By Jim Unwin I walk a lot, and I cycle a lot. I’m old enough now that I own shoes specific to each...
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3 days ago4 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 103 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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