#2 Makes it onto the platform first!

#1 has been eyeing the platform by the nest for quite a while now, and has been unable to make it all the way up there. Well #2 must have eating some Mexican jumping beans and got up there first! You'll see that first she pounces on her sister, who seemed to be sound asleep. (Nice way to wake up!) Then she pounces on the platform and just barely makes it. Once she gets up there, she seems a little confused about how to operate those big feet. Once Iris is back in the nest, #2 jumps back in after her very short excursion.

He did it again!

Rusty's persistence has paid off! Every night once or twice Rusty flies over to Iris' perch by the hatch and does some low, sexy hoots. Iris always meets him with hisses. And when he isn't hooting to her, he offers her food, which she often has refused. Of course it might help if Rusty offered the food BEFORE Iris had her own supper....

At any rate, just after 2 AM this morning Rusty tried his best hoots on Iris. Although she hissed, he hopped over on top of her and apparently copulated! Woo-hoo!

Maybe there's hope for a Valentine's Day egg....