Kestrels: Eyes on Nesting

A boldly marked male on 6th Avenue exploring a cornice.

Three days later, it looks like that cornice hole is occupied. I suppose the Kestrel was angling for nestlings?

This female Kestrel was scouting out another hole in this same building’s cornice.

This also seems to be a Starling nest.

But with both a male and a female in the area, are Kestrels nesting in a cavity nearby?

Meanwhile a female near another nest cavity, a cornice a pair has used the previous two years.

Third potential nest site. These two just finished copulating as I rounded the corner. (You gotta be quick, it lasts less than a minute.) Here they’re using a cavity that was used in 2023, but not as far as I could tell since.