I have two doing the same thing, along with occasional circling. The male doing the circling has already seen off 2 other males (which no longer visit) but the smaller female is havinmg none of his advances so far to my knowledge.
The male comes in to the garden from one direction and the female from the opposite way and I’ve noticed a pattern now where he arrives early, has a very short snack or drink and then runs around until picking up a scent and heads off toward the direction the female comes from.
I found them semi buried in low level plants last night nose to nose, she was huffing away as usual. I caught them on the trail camera around the feeding station much later and he was still in pursuit!
