In 2018, while doing a survey of breeding swifts in Winchester, we discovered a large colony of the birds nesting at Trussell Crescent. Trussell Crescent is made up of two large, curving 3-storey terraces of flats and maisonettes, built by Winchester City Council in Weeke in the early 1950s. This was the only place in Weeke where we found swifts nesting. All the nests were at the back of the Crescent. Swifts were accessing their nests either through gaps in the soffit, or, mo

We have recently completed the first Phase of the Basingstoke Swift Streets Project, under which Hampshire Swifts, teamed up with Natural Basingstoke and Birds on the Brink, to increase the numbers of Swifts and House Martins in the town. Southeast England has lost 75% of its swift population since 1994, largely due to the loss of traditional nesting sites, and the project aims to play a part of their recovery locally. We had previously installed some scattered boxes in Basin