{"id":9765,"date":"2019-12-08T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinnunculus.sy-sy.cz\/?page_id=9765"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:24:47","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tinnunculus.sy-sy.cz\/index.php\/en\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This site and blog or notebook is a&nbsp;follow-up to the older blog <a href=\"https:\/\/photo.sy-sy.cz\/blog\/#param=id_101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Of Mice and Kestrels<\/a>, which we decided to launch back in 2014. It is dedicated mainly to kestrels, who decided to live with us under one roof on the balcony of our home office, and since 2007 also nest here. A&nbsp;few years later the first mouse appeared, acting as a&nbsp;mascot, and it got its place in the title of this blog too. However, other animal residents and visitors to our properties gradually intruded into the content. The swifts nesting upon our window next to the balcony since 2017 have a&nbsp;special place among them. So far, our latest tenants are a&nbsp;pair of kestrels, who in 2026 discovered the flower boxes on our kitchen window sill.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Live from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tinnunculus.sy-sy.cz\/index.php\/en\/online\/our-webcams\/camera-list\/camera-1\/1-kestrel-balcony\/\">the kestrel balcony<\/a> \u00a6 <a href=\"https:\/\/tinnunculus.sy-sy.cz\/index.php\/en\/online\/our-webcams\/camera-list\/camera-10\/camera-10-swifts\/\">the swift nestboxes<\/a> \u00a6 <a href=\"https:\/\/tinnunculus.sy-sy.cz\/index.php\/en\/online\/our-webcams\/camera-list\/camera-21\/21-kitchen-window-kestrels\/\">the kestrel window<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Basic info\u00a0 <a title=\"english\" href=\"https:\/\/tinnunculus.sy-sy.cz\/index.php\/en\/basic-info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/statni.vlajky.org\/32\/spojene_kralovstvi.png?resize=32%2C18\" alt=\"Vlajka Spojen\u00e9ho kr\u00e1lovstv\u00ed\" width=\"32\" height=\"18\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site and blog or notebook is a&nbsp;follow-up to the older blog Of Mice and Kestrels, which we decided to launch back in 2014. It is dedicated mainly to kestrels, who decided to live with us under one roof on the balcony of our home office, and since 2007 also nest here. A&nbsp;few years later &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tinnunculus.sy-sy.cz\/index.php\/en\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Pokra\u010dovat ve \u010dten\u00ed<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8222;Introduction&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9765","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P91gKE-2xv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1655,"url":"https:\/\/tinnunculus.sy-sy.cz\/index.php\/en\/basic-info\/","url_meta":{"origin":9765,"position":0},"title":"Of Mice and Kestrels","author":"Zuzana Syrov\u00e1 An\u00fd\u017eov\u00e1","date":"08\/08\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Kestrels (common or european kestrels) stay with us in our flat in a\u00a0housing estate in the suburb of Brno for a long time. 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