Round two of working with Kily. He is such a great bird to handle, very tolerable of new handlers like me. We have been keeping Kily in ICU at night for protection from the bears. Kily is terrified of larger animals and tends to be a rather vocal bird. The keepers at the center are afraid he would spot a bear and draw allot of attention to himself putting this red-tail in potentially deadly danger. When taking him off his lead he decided to jump from my glove and his short jesses slipped from my hand. Kily took flight and wound up on top of the shelves in the ICU. I'm sure glad this happened in a closed small room and with that particular well behave bird. In less than five minutes Miranda and I had Kily back on the glove and put away for the evening. Makes me realize how easy it could be to loose a bird, I never even felt the straps slip from my fingers.
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