- Woo, day two of our free flight trip, 2019.
Well, this is our second free flight trip in 2019.
Is it our second, third, anyways...
(bright synth music)
We're going out today and we're really excited.
We're headed out right now with Katie, Nicole and Alex.
So Alex has Soya the miligold
who had her first flight yesterday.
And so we're gonna start with her today.
And then we're also going with Nicole
who has a catalina macaw named Da Vinci,
and Katie who has Mia, who you guys
have met on the channel before.
And then we got Jinxy, we got Jinxy!
Bubba Jinx, who's molting, (squawks)
and has lots of fin feathers, prickly.
But we're really, really excited
for you guys to see Da Vinci get his first flights today,
as long as the winds are good.
For Soya to continue her flight journey,
and for Mia to continue her flight journey as well.
So what are you expecting today, think it'll go well?
- Ooh. - We're all a little nervous
for Mia. (laughs) - Mia's my concern.
And it's not from a lack of great training.
Katie has done a fantastic job with her,
but Mia's an interesting thing.
So a lot of free fliers out there
only will train baby birds and I don't know
if we're one of the only ones that'll train adults.
But Mia's story, she has a lot
of back history that is playing into...
possible fears of just different challenges.
- She's definitely harder. - Your framing is terrible.
(laughs) - Well, sorry.
I'm multitasking.
(laughs) - "What do you think, Dave?"
Let's just not pay attention.
- And then there's Jinxy, Jinxy will be awesome.
How are my handsome guys? (wind whooshes)
How are my handsome guys? (squawking softly)
(distant talking) (squawks)
Go Jinxy! (kisses)
I got Bubs, he's a handsome guy.
(squawks) - Okay.
(squawks) Good girl.
(wings fluttering)
(bird squawking)
- There we go, yes.
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.
(squawking)
Yes! (all cheering)
Yay! (laughs)
As soon as she let herself get pushed that way
by the wind, we knew she had it.
You could kind of see she was trying
to figure out how to use the wind.
(squawking) - Mm-hm.
- That was awesome, Alex. - To come back down.
- That was awesome. - What a good girl!
(laughs) - So quick tips,
don't feel like you have to chase her.
- Okay.
- [David] Just kind of, see how we put her here?
- Mm-hm.
- [David] There's plenty of room
to navigate around the trucks. - Oh, okay.
- [Jamieleigh] But if you keep moving,
then she has to keep adjusting and keep adjusting,
and then eventually she's gonna give up.
Because she can't continue to adjust every time,
you know. - Oh, okay.
- (laughing) Yes, there she goes!
(singing) Remember, go to one spot and go up.
(distant speaking) (wind whooshing)
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.
(squawking) Yay!
- Great job, Alex. - What a good girl!
- Do you understand where to go,
based on what Dave's saying? - Yes.
- [Jamieleigh] Okay.
'Cause that's something we need you to learn.
Can somebody hold my bat? (laughing)
(wind whooshing) (laughing)
They flock. - (laughs) They flock.
I just stood stood right behind her.
- Let's go. (laughing)
- [Jamieleigh] (singing) Woo!
(laughing) Whoa, did you see that?
(squawking) (cheering)
(distant squawking) (cheering)
(wind whooshing) - That was beautiful!
He does do this thing every once in a while
where his feet goes flat,
but he continues. - Yeah,
I don't know why he does that.
(squawking) - Juggle? (laughs)
- Yeah, like which one do I want up there?
(bright acoustic music) (harmonic singing)
- What do you think, huh?
What do you think, not too close.
(chuckling)
She intimidates you a little bit.
- [Jamieleigh] She did her fluffy head feathers,
I think is why. (talking over each other)
He's like, "Uh, Mom, Mom, abort." (laughs)
- I am glad that somebody intimidates you.
'Cause you are a bully, yes you are.
You're such a bully, yes you are!
- One, two, three.
(wings fluttering) - Woo!
There they go.
(yelling) (squawking)
- I could tell. (talking over each other)
- Woo, here he comes! (laughing)
- He has a little gray head! - Look at that!
- Wait. (laughs) - All right Jinxy,
what are we doing?
- How come everybody else but me's stuffing their face?
- [Jamieleigh] 'Cause you're obviously starved all the time.
(laughing) (package crinkles)