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It was quite a surprise a few weeks ago when avid KestrelCam watcher Pat emailed us "There's something in the box!". At first glance, it appeared to all of us to be (and here I quote my good friend Bonnie), "that is one BIG m*** f *** kestrel!". ...
5 little nestlings, mouths agape, have been clamoring for food from mom and dad since Saturday. Hatching was very quick, within a day or so for all 5 eggs. The young ones should grow rapidly, and the next thing we'll try to watch for is them...
Well, the first of the eggs hatched today...a tiny little pink hatchling was seen in the nestbox around 3 p.m. The female starling was observed in the box shortly thereafter, possibly feeding it (or perhaps removing the broken eggshell). That...
Well, despite our attempts to remove the Starlings, they've nested and laid 5 eggs, so we decided to let it go this year and let them incubate and hatch them. I know, I know...I'm catching grief from all sorts of people who think we should spend...
Well, at least I think it was a rat that chewed through not one, not two, but all three of our cables. So, yet again, we had to solder the wires back together, and then add yet some more rodent-proofing (another pole to elevate the cables...we thought...
To my relatively untrained eye, it now appears that the local red-tailed hawks are no longer interested in the nestbox, since we've removed the perch. They're still around, although from my observations, they're just using the nestbox hill as one...
And we're going to need plenty of it. I'm starting to get a lot of "where are the kestrels?" questions. Just to remind everyone that it's still likely much too early for them to show up. Somewhere around here I have a graphic from the...
While I was gone on a trip to Yellowstone, it seems our local red-tails have started using the perch a lot. That means that perch will have to come down. Alex and I will take it down this weekend if possible. As a consequence of having...
I've been experimenting with streaming audio lately. It seems a fairly simple thing to do, and internal network tests appear okay, but for this year, we'll probably not provide it as I'm a bit leery of opening my network to the outside world. ...
We'll be doing a lot of waiting for the next couple of months, I'm afraid. Still, it's heartening to see that we've had so many hits in the first few days. Seems like a lot of people will be watching with us, and keeping their fingers...
Anybody out there know what these things at the right of the main Blog page, "Syndication" and "Opml" are? I gather it's for some sort of "news" feed or push or something, but it's new to me. It came as part of the free Forum package from...
Okay, next year (assuming we're successful this year and our enthusiasm remains high enough), we're going to run real power cables to a real junction box on the hill, distribute power the right way, and use better video cable for the return signal. ...
We're up live, with the all-new KestrelCam. Of course, my external camera *immediately* started messing up, so I'll have to fix that tomorrow. The internal ones are working fine, though (although I may have to swap power supplies to get enough...
Just a few more things to take care of, and we should be back on-line within a week......
This year, we've added discussion forums, weblogs and image galleries. We've also procured some new cameras, so you can expect several views of the nestbox. Let us know what you think...and please let us know what you'd like us to add or change!...