- Aug 20, 2020
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- Meisha: Umbrella Cockatoo | Female | 03/09/1989 Hatch Date
Rose Flight Training
A focus in training Meisha to fly with a rose was to expand her opportunity to become comfortable with unfamiliar people, both individuals and large groups. With that, opportunities to experience unfamiliar locations was stepped up from the established platform of traveling to work with me regularly, to stores and out of town trips.
The first frame in the attached gif was taken in an inactive corridor at the Addison Conference & Theatre Centre. We started in a busy section with excessive foot traffic, separated by crowd control stanchions, making flight passes in both directions. Access was arranged by the management team, whom Meisha met moments before the pose, reflected in the second image. She performed practice flights during a waterski club meeting at the Irving Recreation Center, no image, where she flew over a large group of attendants sitting in rows. She used her default gravity brake to slow before landing, dropping in altitude before arching up to land, and wing clipped a guy.
In the third, Meisha flew from the back at the entrance of the sanctuary to deliver a rose which I presented to my bride before we exited as a married couple. The pews restricted vertical clearance. She adapted by maintaining her flight level and applied an air brake maneuver to land.
The forth reflects on a previously mentioned presentation performed at a skilled nursing facility, flying white roses for guests.
Number five in the sequence is a shot from an advertisement plug ran the day before we participated in a live interview with the Dallas television station WFAA channel 8. We went in the day before to familiarize Meisha with the set, staff and equipment. The cameras were quite large.
The two final frames in the loop is of Meisha flying to WFAA’s anchor of Daybreak, Cynthia Izaquirre.
Note some of the photos are cropped screen shots of video frames resulting in the low quality.
Entry Classification: Official
A focus in training Meisha to fly with a rose was to expand her opportunity to become comfortable with unfamiliar people, both individuals and large groups. With that, opportunities to experience unfamiliar locations was stepped up from the established platform of traveling to work with me regularly, to stores and out of town trips.
The first frame in the attached gif was taken in an inactive corridor at the Addison Conference & Theatre Centre. We started in a busy section with excessive foot traffic, separated by crowd control stanchions, making flight passes in both directions. Access was arranged by the management team, whom Meisha met moments before the pose, reflected in the second image. She performed practice flights during a waterski club meeting at the Irving Recreation Center, no image, where she flew over a large group of attendants sitting in rows. She used her default gravity brake to slow before landing, dropping in altitude before arching up to land, and wing clipped a guy.
In the third, Meisha flew from the back at the entrance of the sanctuary to deliver a rose which I presented to my bride before we exited as a married couple. The pews restricted vertical clearance. She adapted by maintaining her flight level and applied an air brake maneuver to land.
The forth reflects on a previously mentioned presentation performed at a skilled nursing facility, flying white roses for guests.
Number five in the sequence is a shot from an advertisement plug ran the day before we participated in a live interview with the Dallas television station WFAA channel 8. We went in the day before to familiarize Meisha with the set, staff and equipment. The cameras were quite large.
The two final frames in the loop is of Meisha flying to WFAA’s anchor of Daybreak, Cynthia Izaquirre.
Note some of the photos are cropped screen shots of video frames resulting in the low quality.
Entry Classification: Official
I'm really comfortable with behavior modification and flight training, but haven't the foggiest how to begin such trick trainings! Perhaps because we can't even get past the grab-and-hold step. Parker just wants to target/touch or attack!
