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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Last September I received a call about a new Doctor’s Surgery that was being built in Emsworth. Malinda Griffin told me that the...

Our last blog https://bit.ly/3rc7eTQ examined exactly what Winchester City Council (WCC) are doing to conserve Swifts and other declining...

Introduction Previous Hampshire Swift blogs (https://bit.ly/2TdKx5c; https://bit.ly/3ra4A11; https://bit.ly/3fWavmD) have highlighted the...

A previous blog highlighted the absurdly low number of Swift nest sites planned for the Cala Homes development at the Kings Barton site,...

Following the last blog about Cala Homes and the missing Swift bricks, Geraldine Buchanan wrote to Cala Homes expressing her concern...

The 2000 home Cala development at Kings Barton in Winchester will include a derisory 20 Swift boxes (estimated), corresponding to a density

Yesterday I caught up with the Love Minsmere live event by Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin that was live-streamed on YouTube on Thursday...

Caroline Dudley has done a nice write-up of the history and subsequent surveys of the Freshwater Fields development on the Isle of Wight...

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...

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...

In a previous blog (“COVID-19: opportunity knocks..”) we asked the million dollar question: “how many of the thousand or so Swift boxes...

Most Swift groups focus on protecting existing nest sites and providing additional nest sites for Swifts. The nature of Swift...

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...

Following a meeting last year between the Reverend Canon Roland Reim, Vice-Dean of Winchester Cathedral and Andy Broadhurst and Prof....