The last of it. 09:02 PT, July 5 — the cup a few minutes after the final fledgling left.
The stream is over. For most of a week this page carried a live overhead view of the nest, twenty seconds behind reality, straight from the one camera that survived the gap. On the morning of July 5 the four young fledged — the full account is in The Fledge — and with the cup empty and nothing left to film, the cameras have been switched off and the pipeline shut down.
What it was, how it ran, and what it cost is written up in The Machinery.
Nothing the camera saw is lost: every thirty seconds of footage was written to storage as it streamed, and the journal counts every day of the run. The cup may not stay empty forever — House Finches often raise a second brood in the same nest, and this sconce has now hosted two. If they come back, so will the cameras.