As I approached the barn, I could hear the happy musical gurgling of a couple of starlings. One was sitting on top of the barn, and this one was investigating the kestrel nest box. Whether starlings will nest there this year, who knows. Probably depends on whether a kestrel pair arrive and turf them out. But we have not had kestrels nesting at FWG for at least three years, maybe four, after a long run of annual nesting activity. We rarely see them around the garden anymore either.