A brief update --
Long, long ago when we had a newly hatched child, we were anxious he learn to crawl. Then we found that once crawling, he had to be watched every second, as in 3 seconds he could vanish from a room and be getting into mischief either dangerous or annoying.
Well, the same is true of flight.
As I write this, my amazon is making pass after pass from a play stand in one corner, across the top of my head (just barely missing) to the cage. Stop, wait to see if I react. Fly back to the play stand and try again. Over and over.
Papers no longer can sit on my desk without weights on them.
If I go to the kitchen, shortly she appears on the play stand there to "help" me with screams and whistles.
If I go back to the office she often beats me there.
Another unexpected downside is that if I go to do something like trim her nails, it becomes a game. She used to sit mostly still and let me clip them, now as soon as I approach with the clippers she's airborne. Have not resorted to a towel wrap but I may have to.
She eats more and more, and has gained about 20g; I think mostly muscle (and probably a bit of feathers), and is more active generally. Flying clearly agrees with her.
So far I've kept her to landing only on approved stands. The occasional exception (e.g. landing across from me on the back of a chair while I eat) get met with a tossed napkin or towel; sorry, it's perhaps negative reinforcement but it's painless and it works.
But it's just like the crawling child -- there's a definite amount of regret when you get what you were waiting for.
