Friday, July 03, 2009

Blackie, One Week Later

Blackie has made significant leaps in learning and flight over the last week. Gone is the baby attitude. He is learning to fly and his tail feathers are longer. He still needs food to be shoveled in his beak but I am training him to take food off the ground.

In the latest video, you will see he spends his time in the tree tops at the level of the other crows. The other crows aren't happy with him but they will have to sort that out themselves. Blackie flies down from the tallest tree to a smaller tree beside me, then dives down to me to eat. I had to stop the video to grab the food. Immediate reinforcement (food) of good behaviour is the way I'm training him.


Pam

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