Hampshire Swifts5 hours ago2 minSwifts are WeirdA 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 activi...
Hampshire Swifts2 days ago3 minSwifts in my SanctuaryA 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 becaus...
Hampshire Swifts7 days ago1 minSwift Awareness Week: Appeal for helpTomorrow marks the start of Swift Awareness Week and this coincides with the most active phase of the Swift breeding cycle. Breeding Swif...
Hampshire SwiftsJun 191 minLymington Swift Walks 2020As part of Swift Awareness Week, Hampshire Swifts had scheduled to run 2 walks around Lymington to showcase the Swift colonies in the tow...
Hampshire SwiftsJun 52 minSwift Surveying. The Hampshire Swift Survey vs Swift MapperThe 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 o...
Hampshire SwiftsMay 13 minCOVID-19: opportunity knocks.. In the past 4 years Hampshire Swifts has installed over 1000 Swift nest boxes on households, churches and public buildings. With a few no...
Hampshire SwiftsApr 73 minCalling all residents of Southampton....Southampton City Council are currently running a public consultation on the proposed "Local Plan" for the city which effectively dictates...
Hampshire SwiftsMar 311 minSwift surveying "will count as daily exercise.." says BorisBy our special correspondent Prof Lailo After a heated COBRA meeting this morning Boris Johnson emerged triumphant to announce that Swift...
Hampshire SwiftsMar 211 minCoronavirus and Swift box installations Despite the increasingly strict government recommendations to minimise social contact there is no reason that the installation of Swift b...
Hampshire SwiftsMar 192 minCommunication, communication, communication...help needed!When Hampshire Swifts started we thought long and hard about how to communicate with people. Prior to development of the internet, commun...
Hampshire SwiftsMar 62 minLooking to the future...Many of the talks and displays organised by Hampshire Swifts are hosted by organisations sympathetic to our conservation aims such as loc...
Hampshire SwiftsFeb 282 minPlanning. Can you help?Since mid-2018 our volunteers have reviewed and commented on 214 planning applications submitted by developers to the 15 planning authori...
Hampshire SwiftsFeb 211 minSwift Awareness Week 2020Takes place between the 27th June 2020 and 5th July 2020 and is actually a "week" of nine days, including both weekends. The essence of S...
Hampshire SwiftsFeb 175 minThe decline and fall of urban birdsOver the years we've seen a number of potential explanations for the decline in numbers of urban nesting bird species such as house sparr...
Hampshire SwiftsJan 301 minHow to create a swift colony...Ron Cooke has kindly submitted an update to the status of his Swift colony in Southampton. "In 2019, at the Regents Park Community Swift ...
Hampshire SwiftsJan 271 minSwift nest box installationsOver the past 4 years Hampshire Swifts has installed up to 1000 new Swift nest boxes across the county. The popularity of our offer to su...
Hampshire SwiftsJan 251 minAvon Valley Swifts?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 y...
Hampshire SwiftsJan 231 minHampshire Swifts need your help: we are recruiting..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 no...
Hampshire SwiftsJan 171 minUpdated RSPB Swift LeafletContinuing their high profile involvement in Swift conservation the RSPB have published an updated version of their "How to Help Swifts" ...
Hampshire SwiftsJan 101 minWhen is an S brick an Eaves S brick?If 2019 was year of the "S" brick, developed by Dick Newell of Action for Swifts (see below), then what advances in nest site technology ...
