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A virtual window into our balcony…
Click the camera number to open the camera page; you can also select it from a list of our cameras. Main camera groups: the kestrel balcony ¦ the swift nestboxes ¦ the kestrel window.
We are also testing a live stream on our Falco tinnunculus brunensis YouTube channel. See also YouTube live.
The story so far: Kestrels on our balcony have been nesting regularly since 2007. The male of the kestrel pair has been living with us since November 2019. With the previous female (she lived with us from July 2018 to January 2022), they brought out 6 young in 2020 and 4 young in 2021. With the current Mrs Kestrel, who appeared here on February 12, 2022, then 4 young ones in 2022, 6 ones in 2023 and 2024, in 2025 even 7 ones.
They both spent this winter 2025—26 with us. Courtship began in February. 1st egg laid on April 5th (9:15—9:17), second on April 7th (9:57), third on April 9th (11:18), fourth on April 11th (14:34), fifth on April 13th (18:08), sixth on the night of April 15-16, seveth on April 18th (before 6:10). “Our” female kestrel has been sitting on her eggs permanently since the evening of April 15th.
Currently there are 6 kestrel chicks in the nest. Three hatched on May 11th, the fourth and fifth on May 12th, the sixth on May 13th. On May 27, the kestrel chicks were ringed.
The chicks are 25 days – 22 days old.
When the kestrels are not present, you can see also other birds: tits, nuthatches (regular winter visitors in small mixed troops), sparrows… and also pigeons, whose presence is a permanent source of conflicts with kestrels.
Swifts as the closest neighbors of “our” kestrels use since 2017 the nestboxes attached high on the wall above our windows next to the kestrel’s balcony. Their nestboxes had been empty since the end of July 2025 as well as the swift box on the windowsill next to the kestrel’s balcony, that was occupied by tits last year.
The swifts are already back in our street. They returned on May 1st. We recorded their activity in the swift nestboxes on May 13th.
Kestrels on our kitchen window on the opposite side of our apartment are the second kestrel pair to nest here in 2026. The female laid the first egg on the evening of May 15th, the second on May 18th before dawn, the third on May 20th, the fourth May 22nd around noon.
Incubation should take approximately 28 days, of which 16 days 11 hours have already passed.
Kestrel seasons
Season 2026 (in Czech only).
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