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1st Kestrel nest box site
 Photos, box, & nest by John C in Boyds, MD 2001-2003         Babies may have fledged in 2004 also.

ABOVE, LEFT: 5 babies on 6/8/02 with eyes almost completely open. They were 4-6 days old, had blood on their beak edges, and sparrow feathers were among the nest. ABOVE, RIGHT: This 14' tall nest box, can be hoisted up/down on its pulley system. Perches were added due to lack of nearby hunting perches. LEFT: 3 approx 10 day old babies on 6/1/2003. A possibly sterile Kestrel egg and a few grasshopper legs were also in there. The site is the most ideal NEW Kestrel box site I know of in Montgomery County, MD. Kestrels were seen on nearby utility line twice in the summer & fall of 2000 before the box was built.