The right training tool: Sid’s Balance & Flying Ethics
Continuing on from the last post, it has been a very uneven path with Piper acclimating outdoors. At times he has become very relaxed, and at one point was flying to the door when I was getting ready...
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Exotic Middle Eastern Garments
A package arrived today from afar: genuine Omani Tinkwear. After custom tailoring to Piper’s size, we attempted the first modeling session. The dreaded head loop that he grew to despise on a previous...
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Observing: Let’s tawk
Robin Cherkas in her Living with Parrots Cage Free blog has a very nice post this week: Signs of the Old Coco. It resonates so much with what I have been experiencing with Carly recently, and with how...
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That thing you just did (IAATE Conference 2010)
Back from the IAATE mega-road trip and easing back into the blog life…. Here are a couple of great quotes I saw as people’s signature lines today: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people...
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1-Year Update: Partnership not Possession
It has been a bit over a year since I started my plan to improve Carly’s outdoor flying behavior when we are confronted with many competing reinforcers. As you may recall, the main problem was her...
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Humans: “Random Signal Generators”
I just came across some books by Dr. Patricia McConnell, an applied animal behaviorist, that are very intriguing. One is called The Other End of the Leash: Why we do what we do around dogs. She...
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Carly Meets Peregrine, Survives
On the last day of the big golf tournament in January, I took Carly up to Torrey Pines gliderport. It was too windy for me to practice, but there was a big crowd of spectators, and quite a few of the...
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Piper Comes Out!
My boy Piper is growing up and getting used to the world. He is the one I rarely took out because he behaved so skittishly around new people or environments, and has shown little interest in going with...
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Flying Mission Bay
Our move to within walking distance of Mission Bay has been a windfall for the beasts: it’s turning out to be an awesome flying spot. Lots of open space along the park and out over the bay. They have...
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Training a Tree-Crawl
As Tom Petty sings in Learning to Fly, “coming down is the hardest thing.” For birds who have escaped or are just learning outdoor flight, this can be a major sticking point. Few companion parrots have...
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