13/06/2026
Great talk by Clive from Hertford Swift Group at All Saints' Church, Hertford this afternoon.
Good to see the progress that has been made in making boxes locally from Baz John's making over 400 boxes in his shed, to taking up the baton and then needing the additional boxes from Bishops's Stortford Men's Shed and Hertford Men Shed. This shows the success and reach of the various swift local swift groups including Ware Swifts & House Martins and Sawbridgeworth Swifts
Increases of nesting pairs of swifts occupying the boxes and bricks installed in Hertford shows that are holding their own with some optimism that there will be some recovery but other projects show this can take a couple of decades to significantly increase numbers. Slow and steady wins the race