- [Jamieleigh] She's never been in Capri's room before.
(iPad playing upbeat music)
- [Jamieleigh] Can we hang out with you?
What do you think?
- That's our Fennel.
(upbeat music)
- She does not know what to think.
- [Jamieleigh] (chuckles) She doesn't.
Like, what just happened?
(indiscernible sped up speaking)
(upbeat music continues playing on iPad)
- Nope.
(upbeat music continues playing on iPad)
- Stop.
Mom!
- [Jamieleigh] Yeah?
- Can you help?
- Oh, wait.
- What?
- I said, oh, let's wait.
She is really interested in what's going on.
- I know, that's the problem.
(Jamieleigh laughs)
- [Jamieleigh] You're sharing, she's standing right by.
- I know, that's the problem. I can't see.
- [Jamieleigh] She's just like, "What's going on on it?"
- "What is this nonsense?"
What are you doing? What happened?
You just want up.
(smooching noise)
Good job.
Going to sit up here?
- [Jamieleigh] And she looks good now, Capri.
What do you think? Can she hang out?
- (affirmative) Mm-hmm.
- [Jamieleigh] You going to hang out?
Going to be a good girl?
(music on iPad continues)
- Good job. Be good.
(frantic flapping)
- Mom!
- [Jamieleigh] Yeah?
- Little help?
I think Fennel wants outside.
- [Jamieleigh] What's she doing over there?
- She flew.
- [Jamieleigh] Really?
- And faceplanted.
- But landed it, huh?
- (affirmative) Mm-hmm.
- [Jamieleigh] Come here.
(plastic bag rustling)
Come here before you fall.
Oh my goodness.
Don't give her a treat yet.
She's not on all the way.
- [Capri] I know.
- [Jamieleigh] Okay. You want her back on the bed with you?
She doesn't need that yet.
She didn't really get it.
- [Capri] You can put her on my legs.
- [Jamieleigh] Okay.
I find that when Fennel flies, she's usually really
close to a window.
She wants to be out. Out, out.
Hey, girl? Oh, what a good step up.
What a good- is that a window right here?
That's a window.
Do you want to sit in front of the window?
Okay, you can go.
Sitting in front of the window. We love the window.
Lots of action out the window.
Okay. So today I'm going to do something different
with Fennel. First I'm going to see if she steps up nice.
And then I'm going to take her outside.
So I might go to the batting net first.
See how she does there.
If she doesn't do well, then I'll probably take her
into my big aviary and see if she does better in there.
But yeah, just going to kind of see.
It's in the evening time right now.
So worst case, if she's just- wants to get away
from me or something in any fashion,
I should be able to bring pellets or seasonal feeding
and have her come back.
But we'll see how she does, so-
Capri's going to film for me. Okay?
Make sure you shut that door behind you.
All right, I need to get a better grip on your feet.
She's getting a little scared.
(door clanging shut)
(wings flapping)
You good?
All right, girl.
Yeah, Fennel.
There we go.
Good job, girly. What do you think?
I'm going to put you in the shade a little bit.
You holding on?
- [Capri] Yeah, it's hot.
- Yeah, it's definitely it's warm out here.
Here we go. What do you think about being out here?
What do you think?
- [Capri] Can we set it down somewhere?
- Let me see if she'll come.
Will you come?
Give me that foot.
Give me this foot-
(gently) Come on, come on, come on.
You got it. You got it.
Good girl. Good job.
You can go right back.
There we go. That was good.
- [Capri] Mom. It's really hurting my arm.
- All right. We can put it down.
We'll just point it at her.
You're doing so good. Look at you.
You going to jump on that?
You look like you're going to jump on it.
Can you go grab me that bird trick spray bottle
on the porch, Capri? Please?
- [Capri] What porch? There are two porches.
- Thank you.
What are you thinking?
You thinking you think going to go into this? It's flimsy.
It's flimsy if you go on it.
It moves.
You look like you're considering it.
Do you want to come over here for some millet?
Want to turn around for some millet?
(calling to Capri) And a clicker, if you see one.
- [Capri] What?
- And a clicker if you see one.
- [Capri] This?
- Yeah. Thank you.
Is my target stick up there?
Will you come? Want to come?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh.
She gives me one foot and then she just kind of
starts walking to the side with her foot in the air.
It's so funky.
Okay, come here.
Come on, come on.
She has one foot on my hand.
Come on.
Yeah. Good job.
(clicking)
Good job.
You get to go down too.
- What? I couldn't find one in the kitchens
so I took the ones-
- Thank you.
- You'd usually use food
- Thanks.
- And attached to the spray bottle.
- So we're good.
- It just fell on me.
- Remember this? Want to play?
(clicks)
Good job.
Okay, let go.
So one of the main issues her owner had talked about was
that she was scared of everything at the owner's house,
would just constantly fly off in terror.
So, it's like a non-issue for me.
I haven't had her be fearful of anything.
I thought if I was going to experience it, maybe
it'd be here outside.
She's just chill, man.
I don't have any fear issues with her.
And the fact that she's doing this in a completely
different environment-
I mean, she has done it on the back porch,
which is screened in, so she's been exposed
to outside slowly, but she looks interested.
So I'm going to keep going.
(clicks)
Good job.
Good girl, Fennel. That looks awesome.
Look at you. Look at you.
I also feel like she's more receptive in the evenings
for training, which is pretty much opposite of any
of my birds.
(laughs) So yeah.
I do most of my training before the evenings,
that's for sure.
Might have to switch it up for you.
Because it's like, I don't know, 5:00 PM or later right now.
You want to keep playing?
(clicks)
Good job, that was so gentle.
That looked so good.
(bird squawking in background)
Always got Jinxy giving commentary.
- [Capri] Mom.
- Yeah?
- [Capri] I landed.
- Really? Standing up?
- [Capri] Like... that.
- Nice.
Nice. Looking so good, Capri.
Will you come?
I'm going to set you right back down.
You don't have to hang out with me.
Come on, come on.
I'm going to put you right back down.
Please? Come on, Fennel.
Will you come, please?
Oh. One foot in the air.
Come on.
This one? Come on, come on.
This foot?
You're going to turn around on me? Darn it.
Can you turn? Come on.
- [Capri] A hummingbird!
(clicks)
- Good job.
So those of you really paying attention
I clicked early because of this momentum
and stuff I had going on. And it worked.
But I probably wouldn't recommend it to somebody else to do.
But it worked and I'm hoping I can get that to happen again.
Okay?
(clicks)
Kind of sound crunchy when they fly, yeah.
(clicks)
Oh my gosh.
That was the best step up she's done, you guys.
She usually will not.
You want to go back?
Good girl, Fennel.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Oh my gosh.
It's like breakthrough.
I'm going to try to video this.
Ah, all right, Chels.
Okay Chels. I'm sorry, this video angle,
but I don't have anyone to video for me,
but she just did the best step up ever.
So I wanted to just see if I could get it again.
Will you come here?
I know, ignore my camera. Don't look at it.
She's just staring down there.
Like... "The heck?"
Will you come?
(clicks)
Good girl, Fennel. Good job.
Okay. That is a big enough reward, ma'am.
She's still staring at it a little bit.
Oh geez. All right.
Ready? You come?
(clicks)
Good girl.
Let go. You got it.
You got a chunk.
Good job, Fennel.
Did you guys notice how she's not as anxious to get
off of me anymore?
And one of the things for teaching the bird
to be just as enthusiastic of getting
off of you is to click and treat back on the perch.
I'm not doing that because she's had such a
hard time coming to me.
So I don't really want to reward there.
If she's content on me, I will be super stoked.
Want to try again?
(clicks)
Good job.
Good girl. Go ahead.
Oh, you don't want to? What a good job.
(clicks)
There we go. Ah, you're still eating so it doesn't matter.
Hey Capri, could you come video for me
so it's a closer up view, please?
Okay. So just make sure you're getting like close up
showing how well she's stepping up onto my hand.
Does the lighting look okay there?
- [Capri] Mm-hmm.
- Okay, cool.
You ready?
You come here?
(clicks)
Good job.
Good girl. Good job.
How awesome of a step up is that?
- [Capri] That's good.
- Do you want to try?
Come on.
- [Capri] No thank you.
- She's being really, really good though.
- [Capri] I'm good.
- It's a good opportunity. She's in a super good mood.
- [Capri] (firmly) I'm good.
- All right.
Do you wanna do targeting?
- [Capri] (laughs) I'm good.
(mimics Jamieleigh) "You want to do this?
You want to do that? You want to do this?"
(laughs)
- Just thought maybe you'd want to hang out with her.
She's pretty cute.
We don't have her for that long.
- [Capri] I wanna hang out with you.
- [Jamieleigh] (laughs) Okay.
I should probably end anyway because this has been so good,
right? How many more should I do?
- [Capri] Probably one.
- Look, she's so interested.
(click)
- [Capri] Okay. One more trick.
- One more trick? Okay.
Gosh. It's so awesome though.
And I didn't even get to put her in that aviary yet.
Because she just did awesome here.
- [Capri] Well, you can do that tomorrow.
What was that?
- What was that?
You don't know? It's a shadow.
- [Capri] Now she's done.
- Okay. You come here?
(clicks)
Good job.
- [Capri] Okay.
- Hold on, ma'am. You're a little in a hurry.
- [Capri] I really want help for T and T.
If I'm in T and T, I need a ton of help.
- Okay. Well I should probably take her in then, right?
- [Capri] Okay, take you in?
- Aw, but she was doing so good.
Maybe we should just do a couple more.
- [Capri] No.
- Yeah. Just a couple more.
- [Capri] No.
- She's- this is the first enthusiasm I've had from her.
- [Capri] Mom. She needs a break.
- Video her.
You good? Do you want to go again?
- [Capri] (mimicking Fennel) I want to take a break!
(clicks)
- (laughing) Fine.
Okay, follow me out.
- [Capri] I got stuck.
- [Jamieleigh] You got stuck?
- [Capri] Yeah. My toe got caught.
- She did really well coming back.
She was kind of flighty on the way there.
- [Capri] What the...?
- [Jamieleigh] All right. Thank you for videoing.
- [Capri] There's a spider.
- [Jamieleigh] Where? Hmm.
(upbeat music)