I have two sun counures that I have hand raised and have been working with them using Chris Biro's methods from the freeflight list and I have to say it has been great fun and works extremely well! Yesterday was a beautifull sunny mdiwinter day so I decided to go to the next level in the training and go outdoors.

I set them up in their cage oustide for about half an hour to get used to the spot. Once I was happy with their body language and with my heart in my mouth I opened up the door and let them out. They flew right over to me and then I went straight into their normal training routine of having them fly back and fouth between me and a perch and then back and fourth between me and my 8 year old daughter. It went without a hitch so am looking forward to building on this!