- All right.
So I'm back wanting to see if Fennel wants to do anything.
And she looks like she does.
She's already turning to me,
which is awesome upgrade from her usual disinterest.
So girl, girl, do you wanna work with me?
I got your new treat stash.
You look excited.
Okay.
Actually, let's start with a step up
and just see if we can skip right to where we were.
Will you come?
A reminder.
Will you come.
(clicking sound)
Good job.
She already went back to posturing
with some F.U. feathers that go up right here.
She's like, "Get away from me."
And then immediately wanting to go back.
So, this bird she's like part Indian Ringneck,
where we just get to start over all the time.
You wanna come?
(bright bubbly music)
(clicking noise)
Good job.
Nice.
(clicking noise)
You can go.
Good girl.
That was a good job.
I'm also, again, like I started off
not leaning over and everything.
I was really testing the boundaries
to see where we were leaving off
because normally, you'd kind of back it up
a little bit and then work back up.
But I just kind of wanted to see
what I could get away with.
Oh, yawn.
Are you tired?
Will you come?
(clicking noise)
Good job.
Good girl.
(kissing noise)
Good girl.
(beak clicking noises)
(clicking noise)
Are you discontent?
Or are you good?
(clicking noise)
You good?
All right.
(kissing noise)
(clicking noise)
All right.
Good job.
(clicking noise)
Good girl.
Can I bring you up?
(kissing noise)
(clicking noise)
Did you get anything?
(bird chirping in background)
Good job.
Proud of you.
(clicking noise)
She's moving much faster than in the beginning.
Do you guys remember how slow these videos were?
Oh my gosh.
This is like the most active I've seen her.
These evening sessions, though, they really throw me.
Realized about myself, I'm not much of an evening trainer.
(clicking noise)
Good job.
Did you get something?
Yeah, you did.
I'm gonna try giving her millet this next time.
You come?
(clicking noise)
Good job.
Yeah, I thought so.
Did you grab it?
Yeah, you did.
So I just put like a little tiny piece of millet
in here from this.
And she actually grabbed that
over what's in the seed mix.
So she's going back and forth between it.
So, at least I have more options now.
(bird chirping in the background)
That noise is Rusty.
For those of you wondering,
pretty sure it's Rusty.
Don't think Cressi makes that noise.
(higher pitched bird chirping sound)
That's Cressi.
You ready?
You wanna come?
(clicking noise)
Hey. Good job.
You staying?
(kissing noise)
(clicking noise)
We got some good stuff that time.
Good girl.
So I'm still not rewarding for her going off,
because that is the reward to her.
She is not like
overly enthusiastic about coming to me.
So I'm still not rewarding going off of me.
And I'm not worried about if she wouldn't step off with her.
There's some birds where I would be terrified.
Like any Amazon, no offense.
But yeah, that's where I'm at with her.
So a lot of the times you might hear me say,
"You need to reinforce for them going off and stuff."
But with her and her personality,
and her lack of wanting to come to me,
we are not there yet.
So I hope to be there, someday with you.
Before you have to go.
Look at you, walking.
Do you wanna come?
(clicking noise)
All right.
Good job.
I think I'm gonna switch up the perch,
and see if I get this good of a response from another perch.
Actually, I think I wanna use the one that I'm filming on.
So I'm gonna have to swap-a-roo.
(furniture clattering noises)
Or actually, I could just try from this one.
I don't think you've been on here before.
What?
Did you just get scared of that?
Look, duh duh duh duh duh.
It's all good.
You've been on this before.
It was just in the house.
You good?
You freaked out?
She actually looks a little nervous for the first time.
Do you wanna come?
Now you're freaked out.
All right.
Let's work through it.
(clicking noise)
Good job.
Good girl.
She just calmed down.
Her body language got really like,
"Okay. Maybe no big deal."
It'll be interesting to see
if she hesitates standing on it at all.
She hasn't had a problem with it.
It's vet wrapped, so it looks a little different,
but it's just for a nicer grip
because some birds don't do as well
on our metal T-stands when they've had nail trimmings.
So yeah, you wanna come?
Do you wanna come?
(clicking noise)
All right.
(clicking noise)
Good job.
So that time, I rewarded her for going to the T-stand
just because I felt a little bit of hesitancy.
But she still had a treat the whole time,
so she doesn't really care that much.
(clattering noises)
Ahhhh.
And she seems like she's doing fine.
But, and I know that was like a really subtle example
but it's super important that anytime you feel
like your bird's showing some signs of discomfort,
as subtle as they may be,
you work through it.
And you get the bird to be more accepting
of irrational fears like that.
There's no reason she should be terrified of this, right?
So we gotta work through it
and not just remove it thinking,
"Oh my gosh, the bird's scared of this.
We might as well get rid of it."
That's not how it works.
Okay. You ready?
Will you come?
Oh, actually, hold on.
Okay. You come?
No.
Could work on some bath training.
It's nice enough out.
Okay. Wanna do something familiar on here?
(clicking noise)
There we go.
Good job.
Just wanted her to walk on this
in case she was uncomfortable moving.
You ready?
You come?
(clicking noise)
Good job, girl.
Do you wanna go right back or no?
Wanna stay?
You so pretty.
You're a pretty girl.
Pretty gal.
Do you wanna come?
Oh, pooping.
You come?
(clicking noise)
Good job.
I am gonna see if I can get her to step up
without this food in sight.
I don't think she's gonna do it.
But if she does do it, she's getting a jackpot reward.
Cause right now I've been using a combination
of like training...
I don't wanna full on say luring
cause she's not reaching for the food the whole time,
but she can see it.
It's in view.
So yeah.
(bird calling in background)
Thank you for the commentary, Jinx.
So can I get you to turn around?
(clicking noise)
Good job.
Okay.
You look ready?
You ready?
You come?
(clicking noise)
Nice.
Good job, girl.
(bird eating noises)
Yeah. Look at that big old chunk.
Well, that was awesome.
I didn't have any food in my hand or in sight.
It's all like behind the camera.
So she did that without seeing food,
which is a huge breakthrough, you guys.
That's a huge moment that a lot of people
don't always find themselves getting to,
and especially getting to very quickly.
So a lot of people lose patience with training
because they can't get to that point.
So, I'm gonna try to stay at this
and see because that was really cool.
Yay.
I am actually gonna take a video
for Fennel's owner, Chelsea,
and hope that I can get it a second time.
Okay, Chelsea, so my breakthrough today,
this last repetition was my first one.
I don't have to hold food in my hands for her to step up.
So I'm gonna try to show you
and hope that she does it again.
Hey girl, you ready?
You wanna come?
(clicking noise)
Good job.
All right.
So she can't see the food,
it's over by my filming camera.
So she's not even seeing it in sight.
I don't have any training pouches or anything on me.
So I'm pretty stoked that she's doing this step up
without me holding the food right there going,
"I swear, you're gonna get this."
So, pretty amazing breakthrough today.
I'm super stoked.
Woo woo.
And she's way more enthusiastic lately,
which is still pretty mild for Fennel.
Cause Fennel's coasted on mild,
but she's way better now.
So I have her attention more.
It's just super duper cool.
Even when it comes to targeting, she's just way more in now.
It's just awesome.
But I've been, I jackpot rewarded her these last two reps
because I didn't show her any food or anything.
But the fact that she's turning around,
she's showing interest,
(clicking noise)
she'll full on walk to get the stick.
And she's also taking steps to step up now.
So instead of just going straight for it
and having her do a really, really easy step up,
I asked to one side or the other,
and she actually has to walk over and then step up herself
versus anything else.
So it's really awesome.
You're doing so good.
I'm so proud of you.
But she's an evening time trainer for sure.
Or trainee.
Or maybe I'm getting trained.
(laughs)
All right.
I think I gotta call it for today.
You did amazing.
(kissing noise)
You did amazing.
I'm super proud of you.
So, so proud.
You did great.
Should we end with like a jackpot and go back to the aviary?
Go beat Jinx.
Just kidding.
You come?
(clicking noise)
All right.
I'm gonna take her back to the aviary.
(gentle folk music)