He flew!!!..

[AmyMyBlueFront]

…. ! Amy!! yippeeee!!!! We were in the computer room and he was on his new "X" perch Uncle David made as a Christmas present for both of them. I was vacuuming the hall then the 'puter room,picking up nutraberry debris and the likes. The sound of the vac must have gotten him scared and he jumped off the perch and flapflapflapped to the floor...and DIDN"T crash land!! He went about ten feet or so. The sound of those arms waving were amazing and music to my ears :60:
What an awesome sight and sound. My little green dino is learning to fly!



Jim

 

[texsize]

That's great news. Looks like the training is taking hold.

 

[chris-md]

Hot dayam, way to go amy!

That’s your cue Jim! I got into recalling Parker when he would only fly when scared, and when he did it was always a crash landing. You’ve got your foundation. Build, young mason! Build!

 

[HEEDLESS]

Go Amy GO!!!!!!!! GO Amy Go!!!!!!!!!!!


You can do it....

​

 

[GaleriaGila]

And thus begins the mighty odyssey
of
Amos the Flying Machine!
​

Congratulations to the House of Jim!

 

[bill_e]

OK Jim, I must be the only one here that had no idea that Amy wasn't already a flier. Had he been clipped for a long time or was he just lazy?

I gotta tell you flying is great...and it's not. Nike will fly to me no matter where I am on the lower floor of the house. If I'm lucky and can sneak out of the living room while she is busy doing something it's only a minute or two before I hear the sound of her wings, to which I call her name to let her know where I am and await her landing on my shoulder or head.

All this is great when I've got nothing better to do than walk around with a bird on my shoulder but not so great when I have things to do and will result in me putting her in her cage when I need to get something done or have a conference call.

She absolutely will not stay in a room if I'm (or my wife if I'm not home) not there and will constantly seek me out. kind of cool...and not

 

[FlyBirdiesFly]

Go Amy go!!! You can do it! You are a bird and you were born to fly!!!

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

OK Jim, I must be the only one here that had no idea that Amy wasn't already a flier. Had he been clipped for a long time or was he just lazy?

I gotta tell you flying is great...and it's not. Nike will fly to me no matter where I am on the lower floor of the house. If I'm lucky and can sneak out of the living room while she is busy doing something it's only a minute or two before I hear the sound of her wings, to which I call her name to let her know where I am and await her landing on my shoulder or head.

All this is great when I've got nothing better to do than walk around with a bird on my shoulder but not so great when I have things to do and will result in me putting her in her cage when I need to get something done or have a conference call.

She absolutely will not stay in a room if I'm (or my wife if I'm not home) not there and will constantly seek me out. kind of cool...and not

Nike sounds very much like BB Bill..As soon as he hears me he is seeking me out.

Bill, No,Amy never learned to fly...it was my fault actually. He was only four months old when he came home with me,and me not knowing any better kept his sleeves short because he was always going places with me and he was going to be my co-driver in my tractor-trailer. I just "assumed" (back then ) that flying was a basic instinct and didn't realize until years later that they needed to be taught,and twenty-nine years later that's what I'm trying to do lol.


Jim

 

[Scott]

Once Amy tastes flight.....

 

[ChristaNL]

I was SO happy to read this!


No more helpless crashing to the floors, but nice (sort off) controlled landings from now on.


Great step-- al your (both of you!) hard work pays off \o/ \o/ \o/

 

[Flboy]

This is really awesome!

 

[SailBoat]

Welcome to the Big Bird Group, Amy! You're now a flyer!

I'm going to guess that he had an appearance of pride and what-the-heck on his face when he landed on the floor!
Congratulations!

 

[GaleriaGila]

Oh, wow, I would have given anything too see that. Yeah, can you imagine?
He woulda been like... "WAIT, WHAT? NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!"

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

When BB flies, ( not a freak-out fly) he's like that old submarine movie,"run silent,run deep" I can barely hear him until he is on top of me..I can only imagine what it would sound like if Amy took a zoom around the room Awesome!



Jim

 

[LordTriggs]

that's so great to hear! He's finally getting it

I know what you mean about the silent zooms I would find out I hadn't closed the cage right by suddenly feeling a light "thud" into my shoulder as someone would zoom round the corner after me. Not a single flap noise. You wait until Amy starts doing that! You'll start being thankful for the flap sounds!

 

[bill_e]

Jim, short flight and an aborted landing because of the phone camera, she hates phones and decided on the secondary landing field at the plant stand.

[ame="https://youtu.be/1Nu6zA7QCLs"]nike flying - YouTube[/ame]

 

[SailBoat]

The big body side of the Amazon family tend to have a fair amount of flight noise around the house. This due to their not switching into long range flight mode in most cases. Their gliding and long range flight mode is near silent. We have a couple of flight paths in our home that Julio will switch into long range mode, but when he switches-out, there is a ton of noise as he pushes huge amounts of air under him to both slow down and land. And that thud noise that Bill's video catches is also a bunch louder.

 

[Squeekmouse]

If Amy is anything like Trigger (they're close to the same size), he'll be as loud as a small helicopter when he flies.

Trigger still flies like a drunk pilot, but at least he's not like the blind and drunk pilot he was as a baby. Amy probably understands windows better than Trigger, but be careful anyway. As he learns to fly he may fly into things and make pretty messy landings.

...and CONGRATULATIONS!!

 

[Terry57]

Jim, that's amazing news! Congratulations on all your hard work paying off, my Friend. YAY Amy!

 

[SilleIN]

GGOOOOOO AMY!

My Sugar hadn't learned to fly as young as your Amy. I was told I could not teach a 13 year old bird to fly, but I was determined to have him fly. I started off with running about with him on my arm. As soon as he would feel the wind (yes outside- a bit foolish in hindsight, but I didn't know better), he would tuck his wings in to make as little wind resistance as possible. I then had to train a "wings" command on the stand. Once the command was well trained, I would run with him and shout "WINGS!". Fortunately Sugar is so nice (or stupid) and he would open his wings and the wind would get hold of them. After doing that for some months he eventually flapped his wings and he flew 3-4 meters to the ground. After that we would do this with a harness on with a long lead.

I think it took me about 6 months training before he started flying short bursts. Another 6 months before he got quite good at it.

He will never be as good as the ones who learned flying during their natural fledging. He prefers to fly off my arm and he always lands on the ground. I have tried to teach him to land on other surfaces, but he just doesn't trust them (probably due to quite a few crash landings in his early days and due to me training outside in fields in the beginning, where he could only land on the ground).

So AMY YOU CAN DO IT!