After preparing existing boxes at Audubon Sharon and installing new boxes in quality habitat this spring, they are now being checked to see if kestrels have successfully nested. This involves climbing the 15-25 feet to each of the 74 boxes monitored by Mike Dudek and Art Gingert throughout NW and northcentral CT.If the nestbox was taken by a pair of kestrels and if the fledlings are old enough, the young will be banded. The success rate has been good so far this year. The results compiled at the end of the field season will help evaluate the status of this CT listed species.