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...

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...

Cala Homes Thames has launched its Urban Wildlife Strategy, which outlines its intention to incorporate biodiversity improvement measures...

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...

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,...

The installation of Swift boxes on Winchester Cathedral, generously funded by Birds on the Brink, was delayed a bit last year due to...

Back in 2018, Winchester City Council were carrying out extensive re-roofing works on their Council-owned stock of properties. Following...

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...

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