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...

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...

A blog for Swift Awareness Week by Jack Le Breton Since leaving university a couple of years ago, I rarely leave my home. It’s not...

Tomorrow marks the start of Swift Awareness Week and this coincides with the most active phase of the Swift breeding cycle. Breeding...

As part of Swift Awareness Week, Hampshire Swifts had scheduled to run 2 walks around Lymington to showcase the Swift colonies in the...

The Swift Mapper app has been updated and improved in conjunction with the RSPB and is used by the RSPB to collect data on the location...

In the past 4 years Hampshire Swifts has installed over 1000 Swift nest boxes on households, churches and public buildings. With a few...

Southampton City Council are currently running a public consultation on the proposed "Local Plan" for the city which effectively dictates...

By our special correspondent Prof Lailo After a heated COBRA meeting this morning Boris Johnson emerged triumphant to announce that Swift...

Despite the increasingly strict government recommendations to minimise social contact there is no reason that the installation of Swift...

When Hampshire Swifts started we thought long and hard about how to communicate with people. Prior to development of the internet,...

Many of the talks and displays organised by Hampshire Swifts are hosted by organisations sympathetic to our conservation aims such as...

Since mid-2018 our volunteers have reviewed and commented on 214 planning applications submitted by developers to the 15 planning...

Takes place between the 27th June 2020 and 5th July 2020 and is actually a "week" of nine days, including both weekends. The essence of...

Over the years we've seen a number of potential explanations for the decline in numbers of urban nesting bird species such as house...

Ron Cooke has kindly submitted an update to the status of his Swift colony in Southampton. "In 2019, at the Regents Park Community Swift...

Over the past 4 years Hampshire Swifts has installed up to 1000 new Swift nest boxes across the county. The popularity of our offer to...

The map shows the locations of Swift nest sites in the Avon Valley using data submitted to the Hampshire Swift survey over the past few...

Why not come and talk to us at the New Forest National Park Volunteer Fair on Sunday 26 January 2020? We have a variety of trustee and...

Continuing their high profile involvement in Swift conservation the RSPB have published an updated version of their "How to Help Swifts"...