Ron Cooke has even renamed his house! He put up his first Swift box in 2002 and it took till 2006 for the first box to be occupied. He...

by Mark Wagstaff There are few sounds more likely to remind us of summer than swifts screeching overhead on a warm balmy evening in June...

I was told a few days ago about a house in Totton, near Southampton, which has Swifts nesting naturally in the eaves (third house from...

You can read our previous blog about Swift boxes in the Highcliffe area of Winchester here and how the installation of Swift boxes...

Twyford’s first Saxon church is mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086. A Norman church replaced it in the 12th century which was later...

Catharine Gale and I from Hampshire Swifts went up to the belltower of the Cathedral with Verger Ian on 11 November - Armistice Day - to...

This is now the third year of surveying the Swifts and other nesting birds at the North Milton estate, and follows our previous blogs on...

Nature author and conservationist, Hannah Bourne-Taylor, launched a petition to protect swifts by delivering The Feather Speech in...

The village of Abbotts Ann lies just to the west of where I live in north-west Hampshire. I’ve known there is a small colony of Swifts...

Our last update one year ago detailed the eight nesting pairs of Swifts that had been encouraged to nest at the Hospital of St Cross,...

On Saturday 5th November nature author and conservationist, Hannah Bourne-Taylor, will launch a petition to protect swifts by delivering...

Swifts have nested at Cheriton Church for a long time, just as they have in many churches around the country. A small number, just three...

It is well known that a small number of Common Swifts, Apus apus, do not nest in houses or churches. In the old Caledonian Pine forests...

We are making a difference – a huge difference in some areas. And little by little in many places the Swift population is starting to...

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...