http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/ Freeflight Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:14:48 GMT Chris Biro http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74318 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74318 ... You are certainly not a failure. You have gotten him back every time so far. Though maybe not idea every time but getting him back is still success. In Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:16:48 GMT robert ong http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74317 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74317 ... This is all part of the process, a process for both you and Manzi. Every time Manzi is out on an overnighter it is like negative re-enforcement for you Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:37:14 GMT Dot Schwarz http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74316 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74316 it is clear that Manzi is not trying to fly away. Could you not train a firmer recall indoors and do some A to B flights outside. Good luck whatever you Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:29:37 GMT robert ong http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74315 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74315 truly, not truelly, sorry about my spelling To: freeflight@yahoogroups.com From: robertong262@... Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 05:49:13 +1000 Subject: RE: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:49:21 GMT robert ong http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74314 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74314 Adele, I enjoy reading about you and Manzi's progress. Your first post, as opposed to this post, shows that Manzi has derfinitely improved. And your first post Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:47:47 GMT adele_deleon http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74313 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74313 I have been a huge failure so far with free flying Manzi. I am thinking of quitting. Yesterday around noon I took Manzi outside to play in his tree like usual. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:57:59 GMT ARCancilla3@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74312 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74312 Science getting closer to the secrets of migration _http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/birdcompass/_ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:51:37 GMT ARCancilla3@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74311 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74311 BRAVO !! _________________________________________________ Ciao, Angela Rosaria Cancilla Herschel in Southern California ...... Being kind is more important Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:09:04 GMT ARCancilla3@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74310 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74310 [Kelly Sorensen wanted to share this and wrote ] Dear Angela, Almost exactly one year after the Basin Complex Fire in Big Sur and the heroic effort to rescue Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:54:52 GMT chomperflybaby http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74309 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74309 ... front of the aviary. Chris bent down offered a finger and Little Flo stepped up.I came running to find them. Little Flo stepped up for me and I took her Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:53:20 GMT mariaisabelsampaio http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74308 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74308 My amazons react with alarm to the low sound "shhhhhhhhhhhhhh". I believe this sound means "snake" for them. Their reaction is very different from other Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:12:34 GMT mariaisabelsampaio http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74307 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74307 I'm so happy Little Flo is safefly back. Wonderful you had a good friend to help you to have her back. These "adventures" are not very healthy for our hearts! Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:07:34 GMT Dot Schwarz http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74306 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74306 Artha and Casper as young birds came with me to visit a friend with a python. Both birds freaked out and flew round the room and the visit had to be aborted. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:09:12 GMT Dot Schwarz http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74305 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74305 I brought one 5 week rock pebbler (Regent parakeet) chick indoors away from her 3 siblings from the aviary nest box; her parents were plucking her. She tamed Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:21:17 GMT adele_deleon http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74304 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeflight/message/74304 Today Manzi did very well. I took him outside and before going to the tree had him do a few short flights (10-15 feet). He made all of them and then I let him