The First Flight

Written by George Sunday, 01 March 2009 19:00

The first flight is always special and scary. That is exactly what we had today. The first baby of the 2009 clutch (Skittles) fledged today and it was memorable. We kind of knew that he was ready to fly, by the way he has been flapping his wings in the cage and also by his acrobatics in the cage. So today after work I came home and held the baby on the couch and Jodie stood halfway across the room calling for the baby. After a lot of hesitation, he took off after a quick dumping of excess weight on me... wohoo. Jodie caught the baby in mid flight before he could crash against any walls, thus averting anything harmful. So one down, three more to go in this clutch. Oh, what joy is to see your babies fly.