Love this project, I did something similar. The next step is building a custom frontend for it that’s exactly how your wife wants!
https://alec.is/posts/building-a-solar-powered-bird-station/
Has your observation record reached a steady state, or are you regularly seeing unusual species?
Here is mine: https://birdymusic.com/
I'm also working on a little project that is a walnut frame with a waveshare eink display and esp32 that polls for latest detection and display the picture.