Thank goodness for the month of March and 70-something degree weather again! The birds (and us) were getting tired of freeflying indoors (although it can be super fun) we were ready for some much needed sunshine and a bit of a breeze to help the birds along!

Today we decided to take some of our birds out for some flights around the RV lot. We are pretty much on outstretched fairgrounds with rodeo-type places outdoors and around, a huge arena and tons of barns around for housing horses mainly.

Earlier in the day we took the elephants out with their trainer Ramon Esqueda, and played with them in the large open grass. It was a blast and as we were playing happily, the crew was setting up our birds’ aviary and we got to bring the flock out afterwards. We sat around in the sun soaking it up and bathing everyone who wanted it.

Later on in the day we grabbed our training bags and decided on a whim to fly! We stayed within our lot, and it seemed to create a barrier of trailers that our birds stayed within by choice.

Now that we’re finally in some nice weather we are hoping to be freeflying the flock more outdoors on our days off. So stay tuned for more pictures and videos from us and the Womach flock! And be sure to catch a show and come an hour early to meet Dave and I and some of our flock mates… and let us know you’re from BirdTricks.com and we’ll do our best to get you backstage to see the grand tour of our birds’ living quarters

Check out the links for more info! —> Tour schedule, photos, videos, birdtricks.com fans before you.

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Originally Dave and I thought we would be able to free fly our birds all around the country on this tour. But we’ve started the tour in December and now that we’re into February it’s just plain cold. It was 9 degrees out here in Shelbyville, TN the other night and so flying outside just isn’t a very smart idea.

Instead, we have been free flying inside! We have finally caught onto our schedule enough to be able to take advantage of the empty arenas before anything is set up for the show.

We shared the arena with the elephants; Bonnie, Suzie and Mini.And we had their trainer, Ramon Esqueda, there just in case any of the elephants felt nervous about the birds then Ramon could calm them since they look to him for comfort.

The birds had a blast! As you will see in the video above.

And it reminded me of something SUPER important to parrot owners…

Exercise via flight for your bird makes it TIRED, which almost always is followed by cuddles. Our birds were SO cuddly during this time and especially afterwards. They wore themselves out playing hard and flying around burning tons of energy and just wanted to be close and cuddle. Comet and Tusa aren’t always the most cuddly birds, they remind me of cats in the respect that they have to be in the “mood” and come to you for cuddles. But whenever we fly them like this, they just want to snuggle up afterwards and be mellow and sweet.

If we ever notice our birds being a little more on the aggressive side, we look at their schedules and always realize that they need more exercise to burn that excess energy and this energy can ONLY be burned to the best and healthiest extent via FLYING. It’s so so so so SO so so important not to clip your bird’s wings and to let it have the freedom of flight specifically for health purposes alone.

However, I promise you will also notice behavioral changes as well. Flight training is a great way to build a strong a bond between you and your parrot as well as work in healthy exercise. Birds that go through flight training usually eat much healthier too, because their body craves the good stuff.

Enjoy the video from our recent adventure and I will be sure to continue to keep you all updated with more from our flock!

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A lot of you have been asking on facebook about certain locations and why we fly at the places we do with our birds and our newest freeflight students.

I have to come out and admit, a lot of the places are random when it’s just me and Dave flying our flock. We travel A LOT and when we are, we are always looking at possible places to fly our birds.

The main reason we fly where we do it based on where our Freestyle Flyer students live. It’s always good for us to go where they live (most recently California) and find places near them. But it’s also nice to meet somewhere in the middle sometimes, too, especially if we’re on the road anyway and have to be somewhere.

Because we are on the east coast, settling for somewhere in the midwest seems to work out when our students are on the west coast. Our favorite places to fly (as of now) are Waynesboro, Virginia and Moab, Utah. Moab was the very first place we did a lot of freeflight. We began our freeflight journey in Las Vegas and Florida but Moab was where Cressi progressed the most and we had the most fun so it holds a special place in our hearts and is one of the best spots to fly birds.

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