- Day one of our free flight trip, 2019.
We're super excited.
We have new flyers for you guys this year, yes!
- And new types of birds!
- New types of birds, yay!
Always our favorite.
Everybody is following us out,
we're trying a new level one today that we found on the map.
We're going to go check it out, see if it's any good.
Hopefully get Soya's first flights out today.
She is a military.
No, she is a mix of a military and,
and a blue and gold Macaw.
So she is a Miligold hybrid.
She's gorgeous.
She's absolutely stunning.
She's a little bit smaller than Jinx.
- Little bit.
- So we're going to see how she does.
Hopefully the winds don't pick up so that we can get her
first flights outdoors today.
If not, we'll just fly the experienced flyers,
as you can tell,
we have our sun conures with us.
We have Bondi, we have Cressey,
we have Tusa and we have Jinx.
- And we actually put the tail mount on Soya
for the first time.
And she's significantly smaller than our guys.
She takes a medium sized tail mount for the GPS
and she didn't care at all.
She has the dummy GPS on now,
just in case she wants to destroy it,
but she seems to not care.
That's always interesting when you put on
a new piece of equipment onto a bird,
how they react, but she seems great.
- Yeah, and if you get the bird trips package
from Marshall GPS, you get the dummy unit on there,
which is really, really good so that you can see
if your bird hates it
before they destroy the good, expensive unit.
That's why we include it.
Yeah, I will update you guys, when we get to our level one.
(exciting music)
- You excited to meet Boomer?
You get to meet Boomer today.
- Some good scratchin'.
Gotta wind her up.
- What is that?
Can I get that off you?
- What are you doing?
- [Child] You brought her out?
- Yeah, so we're just waitin' for Kim.
- I'm trying to hold Bondi.
- Whoa, what happened?
- Bondi!
- We just got to our new level one, it's amazing.
So a level one is open, mostly completely flat
with nothing else to land on and out here
we have tall shrubs, but no trees.
Which is ideal because the old level one we had,
did have one or two trees, which always annoyed us.
But this is, this is amazing.
I think it is still a little bit too windy for Soya,
but we're going to let her watch and get some of the
experience fliers out first.
(upbeat music)
- You want to call 'em?
- Yeah, here.
Hey girls!
(happy giggles)
- Good goin' Bondi.
- She made me drop it.
- You think Cressey's okay?
(bird screeches)
- She looks pretty stressed out.
(bird screech)
- She looks like a flight risk at any moment.
- Go out there.
- Hold on a second, this is pretty strong for these guys.
- They just latch onto her, wherever they can.
(bird screech)
- Soya.
- Why don't you put your back?
- You all right there?
- Do you want to hold one?
(happy giggles)
- No, he's not all right there.
Get off my cage.
(bird screech)
- Capri.
- Ready.
- They see something?
- Soya.
- Help.
(happy giggles)
- It's taken her so much effort to climb around.
- Soya.
- She's like, how about you?
(bird screeches)
(happy laughs)
- Oh, they're so tiny,
(bird screeches)
it's so cute how they like
fall all over her.
(bird screeches)
- Soya.
(happy giggles)
- Call her.
- Baby girl.
(happy giggles)
(bird screeches)
(high-pitched laugh)
- What are they looking at?
- Airplane.
- Okay.
- Mom, call her.
(bird screeches)
(happy giggles)
- Babies.
(bird screech)
- They just stick to her like Velcro.
(happy giggles)
- Mom, call them.
- Come here girls.
- Oh no, I only have one left.
- Babies.
- Hold on.
- Oh no, last.
- And splat, down-winder.
This is, this is a steady five to 10
with gusts to 15.
- Okay.
- And right now it's kind of out of the West.
So what that means is when the birds are flying in
to land on you, you want to feel the wind in your back.
So they're landing like an airplane or a kite, right?
They want to be landing into the wind.
So that's where they're going to slow down the most.
So if, and when we get to it, it depends if the wind
softens a little bit, we take Soya out.
We're going to set the perch or her cage, downwind.
You're going to stand with the wind at your back
in a short distance, have her fly to you into the wind.
That's really critical.
Also keep in mind if she's circling
and trying to land on you,
don't stand here, because the wind's going to push her.
And she can't get to you properly,
because the truck's in the way.
So try to get away from stuff
so that she can choose how to fly properly
and land, with the wind.
Like she's going to fail a few times,
and then figure it out.
But you want to make sure that you're not standing
right next to something that makes it so that
she has to do it downwind.
Cause that hurts.
- With this handsome guy.
Look at this handsome guy, prickly, you're very prickly,
the pin feathers.
So we're swapping the dummy GPS for real GPS on Soya.
The weather got good enough to fly her.
Ashlyn noticed she was in my shot.
(silly laughs)
Do you want to help her on where to put the T stand
and where to ask for the first flight?
Because that T stands at a slant.
- Help with this handsome guy.
Squeeze you, squeeze you.
- So I'll have you stand here, when you're ready,
it's going to be on three.
- First.
First one.
Can I come down?
Changed my mind.
- Guys, remember this Kim?
- Soya.
Hi, come here.
- Right?
- Soya.
(bird chirps)
Good girl.
- Hello sir.
(bird chirp)
Hello sir.
- It might.
(bird chirp)
I kind of super glued the wood piece onto it.
- That's fine.
- Just cause it was swinging around
and smacking her in the back.
- No worries.
(bird squawk)
- Whoa.
(bird squawk)
There it goes the exploratory.
Keep in contact with her.
- Soya.
(birds chirping)
(bird squawk)
- Circling, that's a good sign.
- Woo-hoo, she's speeding up.
- First pass, she missed ya, but we'll see.
- Keep in contact with her.
- Soya.
- Hi, look at you trying to get down.
- Trying to keep from slamming into a car.
- Come on Soya.
- Soya.
- Who's got eyes on her?
- Mark has eyes.
- Soya.
- She's still up in the air.
- She's coming back.
- Soya.
- Making a big circle.
- Come on girl.
- Awe, that was nice.
(bird shrieks)
- Soya.
- Now she comes in, she comes in lower.
(bird chirps)
- Where you're at Dave is more perfect.
- There she is.
(bird chirps)
- Soya.
- Come up here real quick, let's move it in right here.
- Raven.
It's a raven, it's okay.
- Stand right here.
(bird chirps)
Hurry, hurry, hurry.
(bird squawks)
(bird chirps)
- Soya.
- Running out of steam.
- She's running out of steam.
- Yeah, it looks like it.
- Yeah, she's landing.
- In the bush.
- She tried.
- Hello sir.
- You gonna do some recall from the bush?
(bird chirps)
Let's go get that birdie, huh?
There snakes in these grasses?
I'm fine, do you want to take Tusa?
- Sure, Tusa.
To answer your question, yes, there's probably snakes.
- Thanks David.
So she ran out of steam, after trying to make the landing.
So we're just going to try
a very short recall out of the tree.
It's more like a big shrub with these things.
She, she's not even able to perch on this thing.
- Hold on Capri, and Jamie, if you want to turn around
and catch Tusa, he's looking for you.
- Oh, shnakies, oh, Tus, sorry buddy.
Okay, let's do a little flight.
And I'm gonna have you go that way.
- Come here.
- Good.
- Good girl.
- Okay, Tus, sorry buddy.
Oh my gosh.
Geeze, whew.
- Good girl, good girl.
- I think we have an RV coming up the road pretty slowly.
- Oh, yeah.
- Just FYI.
- Good girl.
- Somebody is happy to be outside.
- Mm-hmm.
- Hey cutie.
- Soya.
- Good job.
- Good girl.
- That's why I say step back a meter.
(bird chirps)
- Soya.
(bird squawks)
- Okay, this time hold her until this car passes.
- Rock out.
- That's too cute.
(laughs happily)
(bird whistles)
- Hey cutie.
(bird whistles)
- Good girl.
(bird squawks)
- All right, to go a little further,
we're going to hopefully get a long flight
or an exploratory.
- Come here.
Good girl.
(exciting music)
- Good job.
I'm gonna put you back.
(upbeat music)