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 Cornell Lab of Ornithology that shows average breeding/nesting/migration time periods, and I'll try to find it to post. But the bottom line is, at this latitude, breeding and nesting occurs from around late February/early March onwards. Thus, we don't expect to see any birds for another month or so (but nature doesn't always play by textbook rules, so you never know). The two primary reasons for putting up the nestbox early were a) to work out all the technical glitches, such as camera malfunctions, red-tails usurping the perch, etc, and b) to give any kestrels time to acclimate to the nestbox being in their territory and available.
So now, we'll just keep waiting and watching...and hopefully, with a little luck, someday in the not too distant future, the images will "update every 30 seconds" to show us some little falcons exploring the inside of the box!