Hi,
My girl had two "black eyes" in a row from hitting one, a window screen, and the next day, a picture frame. She has a huge "strawberry" above her eye and i was soo worried. Then she flew again immediately afterward, after a wing flap (so I assume she's still liking flying), while on my hand. This time she landed on the ground very well! Phew. I even put in a huge ficus tree in the room hoping she'd grasp at that to land. She flew around it today. She never uses the nice soft furniture or rugs.
She then crossed the entire room to get to my hand! I followed the advice set by Ms. Hollander's lecture and just stayed put after she landed rather than rushing to her. She wagged her tail after I picked her up, and I spoke sweetly to her and blew on her to cool her after her exertion.
I sooo wish I could enclose a large area of the yard with netting as a flight pen so she could learn to fly AND LAND. I think it would take a huge enclosure full of grass and maybe a tree or two, and this isn't possible. So that said, what do you think the outlook for her is? I've had her for 2 months now and she mostly hits walls or blinds to land. Occasionally she has landed on a chest top or the floor and made me proud.
Can you link me to any writings about helping birds that never fledged on landing? Or do you think she won't improve and i should clip her? I really cringe at the thought of clipping her. She's not having problems from dangerous things in the home---just walls and screens, blinds! Many bumps and she survives ok. My avian vet said, "they're pretty tough and they have to be to learn to fly; she just needs time." But I don't know that he keeps Greys, you know.
Allie