- [Dave] Are you okay?
- I don't know, I feel bad.
- [Dave] Hello friend, I trust you.
(chill electronic music)
- You think he'll do okay under all this?
- [Dave] I don't know. It's your bird.
- I wish this truck wasn't here.
I wish the truck wasn't here.
Can you ask them to leave?
I need to bring a bird out, can you guys like GTFO?
I kinda don't wanna.
- [Dave] You all right?
- A little bit.
- [Dave] You want me to close you?
- No, it's okay. I just wanna get a food pouch.
- [Dave] You're all shadowy.
- Hi, Bean.
Hey.
I'm like...
- [Dave] You okay?
- I don't know, I feel bad.
- [Dave] Hello friend, I trust you so much.
Hang on.
- He's being so chill.
- [Dave] I am so glad I found you.
I've never had so much trust in one human being.
- Stop it today.
It's okay, Bean. He's getting nervous.
Hey, that truck left!
It was this one?
- [Dave] Yeah.
- Who are all these people?
- No.
- Come meet him, I want him to meet you.
- Hello. Who's this?
(birds chirping)
- Can you show her you like head scratches?
He's a little nervous right now. Not right this second.
Yeah he's, he's actually really, really cool.
The only time he gets super nervous is
around really assertive men
who would just come up to him and be like, hey, dude!
- Well that's what I worry about over there, cause that's,
that's what they do.
- You give it to him.
- Good job.
- He's a total foodie so that part's all good.
- [Dave] He's way better with me.
- But yeah, he's like way better with Dave.
I don't know if you weigh anybody-
- I was just about to ask.
- But he should be like 416 every morning.
- I'm going to write that down.
- You're like 416 every morning.
- You saw our other gray that we are working on right now?
- Yeah, I saw the one you like just got in.
He's horrible is the bucket one, right?
- We didn't even tell all of the story, yeah. Hi.
- [Dave] He said hey, you got any more of those?
- Can she pet you? Can she pet you?
Oh yeah, she has cool nails.
- The nails always help me.
- I do nothing with my nails.
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Hey guys, Jamieleigh here from BirdTricks with Caprese.
And as you saw, we recently dropped off Bean
at Ronnie's For the Love of Birds.
And they will be finding him his forever home.
We're really excited about that process.
But we get asked a lot about this process,
and I've never actually shown what it looks like
to drop a bird off unless they're being dropped off
at their forever home or back with their owner.
Because as you guys know,
for those of you that have followed
a lot of project bird stories,
they aren't always birds that go into rescue situations.
They actually have been in the past just
from normal owners who are struggling.
So, fizzy drink.
So anyways, I figured you guys had a lot of questions
about the process, and probably what it feels like,
and things of that nature, so.
How did it feel to drop off Bean?
- I wanted to keep him,
especially because Blueberry wants a playmate.
- Yeah.
- And, and apparently he's trying to do that with Halo.
- So those of you that did not, or who do not join us
on Patreon have probably missed the fact that Bean is a,
well not Bean actually, Blueberry's a little obsessive
about Bean and just absolutely loved his company.
So it was something that was just really endearingly cute.
We obviously monitored. - It was also dangerous.
- Yeah, we monitored it very closely just
because Blueberry is so much smaller.
But honestly, in that situation with that duo,
Bean was the one that was more uncomfortable.
So it was quite cute,
But that was, that was definitely a hardship.
Look how happy these guys are.
I know you're probably only seeing Bean,
but Blueberry's in there.
Blueberry is right there.
I don't know if Bean knows Blueberry's there.
But these guys are pals.
From a safe distance they are pals.
Having to remind Blueberry, from a safe distance,
because Blueberry wants to be all with Bean.
What are you doing?
You are in love with Bean, you just can't help yourself.
You just put yourself in his cage.
Bean what happens if you come out?
Then will Blueberry come out?
He really likes-
- I was scared about Blueberry, because I'm like,
Blueberry, I don't want you to get bit by Bean.
And they, if this was the cage,
Bean was here, Blueberry was here.
They stayed on each side of the cage.
- Yeah, they did.
They always stayed, stayed a very safe distance.
But it's almost like Blueberry just enjoyed Bean's company.
And Bean didn't always seem to mind,
there were a couple times where I went and was like,
Blueberry, a little much.
- And we, we didn't put him in the cage.
He went in the cage, which I'm not too happy about
because we screened in the whole porch.
So why didn't he use the porch instead of that cage?
- Yeah, we did go through a lot of trouble screening
in the porch.
And Blueberry would weasel and squeeze his way in to,
or her way in to Bean's cage.
- I think it's a boy.
- I think it's a girl.
- Bean? - Blueberry?
- Oh, Bean?
- Bean is a boy.
- Bean is definitely a boy.
I'm like, why do you think Bean's a girl?
- How did you feel after we dropped him off?
- I really don't want him to go.
And to be honest, blueberry doesn't even notice
that Bean's gone.
But I didn't want him to go
because I felt like he was really sweet
and he was probably one of my favorites
out of the ones that we've been training that aren't ours.
- That's sweet.
I didn't know that, that he's one of your faves.
Yeah, you know, there's like little quirks
about project birds, like certain things
where it would be annoying that we couldn't eat
in front of Bean because he's such a foodie.
- Like Blueberry.
- And I think that's going to be an ongoing thing
that his forever home is going to have to work through,
and work on, and make sure they don't accidentally reward,
because he's already crazy about it
just from how he came to us.
That's a, that's a longterm thing that you got
to figure out how to break.
It doesn't happen in just a week or two, or even a month.
But you kind of start to miss those annoying quirks
when you give up a project bird
or when you're done with, with that work.
And so for me, the process is really hard,
which is why I don't usually talk about it.
I don't usually show it.
It's something that I don't really like to open up about.
I don't really like to talk about.
And I remember Dave while we were driving away,
I just like was crying.
And Dave's just like, should I be filming this?
I was like, no, please.
- Yeah Daddy asked, like, should I film this?
Every single time if you're like, when we're in the car.
- Yeah.
So I just, it's really a hard process, process for me.
I get super attached. You can't help but get attached.
There is a bunny. - Bunny!
- You see a little bunny.
The thing that helps is that I usually dictate
when I take a project bird around my schedule.
So the nice thing is that we're currently traveling,
if you can't tell, we're outside.
So immediately after donating some perches to Ronnie's,
settling Bean in over there,
we had some in-home consultations within the area.
And that kind of helped, it was almost nice to stay close.
And I really considered going back
and seeing how he was doing,
but I felt like that would cause a lot of confusion.
So I decided against doing that,
especially when they were kind enough to send me some photos
and tell me that he was doing really, really well adjusting
and had no problem eating all the food
that they were making.
Cause they make our, my seasonal feeding system.
But they said that he was taking to the volunteers great.
And they already had a potential home that was,
that people were already lined up to come meet him.
So I was really excited about that.
And I just look forward to getting updates on his future.
And yeah, so anyways, I just wanted
to say a very big thank you to all my patrons
who made Bean, taking on Bean possible.
I was so happy to share that with you guys.
And I'm glad that I could share the videos
here on YouTube as well, just a few of them.
So if you missed all the in between,
head over to Patreon if you want
to see all the Bean videos I released,
between three and four, every single month since I had him.
- Also I think that he was really cool
because not only did he not like Daddy,
but he actually was wanting to like do it, but not do it.
- What are you saying, about Dad?
- About Bean and Dad.
- Yeah, so originally Bean was really scared of Dave.
- Yeah, Dad gave him like that big of a nut.
- Yeah. - Every time.
- And he was able to work through it with Dave,
which was super awesome,
and something that was really important in his journey
with us, because I didn't want him going in
having that intense fear of men.
It's definitely still, he prefers women.
And that was something I tried to make Ronnie's really aware
of, but it is something that men can now work through
because he's not, you know, just flying away scared.
- And what I felt was kind of funny, Dad,
he hated Dad, and then my grandpa came in
and Bean was pretty fine with him.
- Yeah.
- That was what I was like, what, how does that work?
Like why does he doesn't like my dad,
but he likes my grandpa?
- Yeah, and that's when we had started working
on the process of him with men.
And so it was really cool to see him not react fearfully
to another man, which was my dad.
So that part was really, really cool.
He wasn't, you know, as great as he is with women
where he was just like, go ahead, pet me,
go ahead, handle me.
But there wasn't that intense fear response.
So we were really excited about that.
So I think Bean is pretty set up to have a good life.
- Yeah, and he always were offering for pets.
It was really cute because instead of doing trick,
he's like, pets?
And I'm like, no, I want a trick.
And I'm like step up.
And he's like, pet?
And I'm like, Bean!
- All right, anyways, thank you guys so much for watching.
Thank you again for all of your support over
on Patreon, making project birds possible
and enjoying the stories that we share with them.
And we will catch up with you guys next time
and keep you posted on our next project bird.
What do you think it's going to be?
- I think it's that like one that looks like Lucky
but it's mean.
- Oh, I know who you're talking about, Abby, the Quaker.
- Yeah.
- We'll have to see.
Let us know what kind of project bird you would like
to see us take on next.
- Do you have questions about Blueberry?
- And Capri really wants to do a Q&A about Blueberry,
so leave your questions about Blueberry
in the comments below.
You want to add anything?
- Yeah, and if you have questions about any bird
or human, you can ask us if we can do one too,
cause we'd love to answer them.
Bye!
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