Last night at 8:53 pm Astrid laid the second egg of the 2016 clutch. She immediately settled down and covered both eggs for the night. Ares came to check on everyone early this morning.
Author: D Saltis
Astrid lays first egg of 2016!
Saturday morning, at approximately 4:24 AM, Astrid & Ares produced their first egg for the 2016 breeding season. We can expect up to three more eggs to be laid in the coming week.
Mating on the steeple!
Astrid and Ares were quite busy this morning. This was their 5th mating of the morning and it wasn’t even 8:30 yet!!
March 12 2016 – Early Morning Mating
After witnessing several aborted mating attempts yesterday, we were very happy to see Astrid and Ares mate at the box early this morning.
Today’s warmer weather = plenty of action!!
This morning was very active – we heard and/or saw about three aborted mating attempts
Maybe breakfast was what Astrid wanted!!
Whatever that was I guess Astrid approved because Astrid and Ares finally mated!
However the action was not over – poor Ares had to defend off this very persistent intruder!