S&P In The Box - Did They Stay?

Salt and Pepper in the box together three times last night. First time at 10:55pm Salt goes in the box first, calling for Pep to come in; she finally does but sits on the inside perch. Salt not getting any responses from her, so he pushes past her and leaves, she follows. By the way he went in the box after a 10:49pm mating session.

Second time again they went into the box but my outside cam video crashed, only had inside. Saw both inside don't know what time they left.

Third time around 3:47am both are in the box again. Lot's of tongue clicking, screeching, begging etc during these time in the box. They didn't stay the day. My opinion, Salt still hasn't brought that rodent into the box as her gift. Who knows maybe tonight will be the night he brings gift and see if they'll stay then....

 

Reproduction

I was asked to give an indepth on reproduction, here is a shortened version and below that  is the full version links.
  Copulation occurs every few minutes during the nest site search. Both sexes crouch down in front of each other to solicit copulation. The male mounts the female, grasps her neck, and balances with spread wings. Copulation involves a 'cloacal kiss', with the male on the female's back & twisting his tail under the female's, this typically lasts just a few seconds. This continues with decreasing frequency throughout incubation and owlet rearing.

It is the female’s egg rather than the male’s sperm that determines what sex the owlet will be. Thus the female has the potential to determine the sex of her young by whether she ovulates male or female eggs.

Males do not have a phallus, insemination occurs by "cloacal kiss". Sperm are ejaculated into the cloaca and swim to the sperm storage tubules. (located at the junction of the vagina and uterus. Only a small amount make it to the storage tubules, some are lost when the female defecates. Some slowly work their way up through the infundibulum. When the female ovulates, the ovum is captured by the prehensile and the sperm swarm  over the surface, the target is the germinal disc (which contains the female pronucleus). Fertiliation includes the penetration of ovum by sperm and the fusion of male and female pronuclei. Embryo development begins almost immediately, Many cell divisions have occured by the time the ovum has become incorporated into the egg and the egg is laid (most species) 24 hours later.

http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/avianreproduction.html

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/91088893/AVIAN-REPRODUCTION-MALE-REPRODUCTIVE-SYSTEM-MALE-REPRODUCTIVE