I have a three year old red-lored amazon who I've had now for only two months. We got her from a family who couldn't spend time with her anymore. I bought Michael's book Well-Behaved Parrots and started doing taming like he suggested.
After getting used to me she would let me scratch her beak and pet her, but now after doing taming exercises like grabbing her by the neck gently and moving her to my shoulder, or carrying her across the room and putting her on a perch ect... as well as practicing one handed grabs around the back and across her wings, she doesn't really let me touch her beak or scratch her much. She instead acts like she wants to fly away, and if I proceed trying to do those things she will fly away.
Any suggestions? It's almost like she now associates me with those things she doesn't like so she is just gonna bail before I can grab her.