Paul Sterry is a prolific wildlife author and a passionate conservationist. He founded the international competition Bird Photographer of the Year and is a founder and trustee of the conservation grant-awarding charity Birds on the Brink (BOTB). And he is a great photographer! Horus Swift © Paul Sterry Paul recently sent me this beautiful photograph of a Horus Swift taken on a recent trip to Senegal. It was taken at Gamadji Saré, above the sand banks of a tributary of the Riv

Hampshire Swifts are working with Gill Smallman of Natural Basingstoke and with the Birds on the Brink (BOTB) charity and others to promote the Basingstoke ‘Swift Streets’ campaign. The plan is to achieve a measurable increase in the population of Swifts and House Martins in the borough of Basingstoke and Deane, through installation of Swift boxes, Swift bricks and House Martin nest cups to create new nesting sites for our co-habiting urban birds. I had a lovely walk in the s