Tree territorialism now

December 30, 2007.
I've noticed that on her manzanitatree stand, lately, she has starting biting like in the cage. That's not going to be tolerated. I replaced her tree stand with a smallstand for awhile and she hasn't started biting on it yet. On the treestand she can get sort of down "in" it, like her cage and that's when she's aggressive. When she's on the top branch, she's not aggressive. The playstand only has one level and she's fine there, not biting.
All of this territorialism indicates to me that she could be hormonal. And, alas, as with any woman's hormones, haha, there isn't much that a man can do except our age-old remedy:
Yes, Dear.
Yesterday, she even tried to bite when asked to stepup from my desk and that was unusual. So, I walked away. Talked to her from another room. I came back in five minutes and she hopped on my hand perfectly. Of course, she get's a hallelujah chorus when she does it that good.
Also, I've been paying more attention to just placing my hand there and cueing her to stepup rather than actively moving my hand under her. That seems to be having a positive effect as well.