Lets talk about mistakes and accidents you learned from while taming...
I'll start:
I seem to make one of these and create a gap between us when ever my budgie starts to forgive me for the previous one..
At the beginning, I clipped his nails almost as soon as he got used to me,and he disliked me getting my hands near him from then.
Slowly after getting him back to trusting me enough to pet him,I decided to stwich from my tried and true spray method to sink baths.
After a while he got used to baths and gets excited the day after his bath and is much more playful,until I had to give him 2 in a row once,after he flew and landed belly first into a very spicy spill on a counter,he didnt like me that time.
As he got over it and let me touch him and fuss with him and pet him, he once shook his head and I accidently hit his tongue with the eyedropper I was using..-.- he didnt want to come to me after that.
I left him alone when he didnt want me to hold him,and slowly rebuild the bridge.
I left him with my dad one time and went into another room in the opposite side of the house,and he somehow flew through the rooms and found me and decided to land on the back of my head without making a bit of sound;freaking me out and causing me to shake him of, then dodge further attempts while trying to catch him v.v
Then another time i cut his nails too far(I went in small increments so it didnt cut into it, but the pink quick was visible through,and I tried applying quicki stop which made it worse)he had a hard time grabbing on to things so I put off certain activities.
He got better and he was,until yesterday I was letting my parakeet explore a new place since he was feeling very playful and I even got him to play with a new toy(a plastic chinese checkers marble),after he was done with jumping and flipping an empty caprisun pouch,and pecking and highfiving a empty pepsi can.
Somehow he slipped and fell of the table and between a chair that was pushed in and was stuck with one wing caught over the table and the chair's back. I was trying to fix a perch for his playgym when I heard a soft squeal (identically to what a baby makes when excited/happy)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vamK9CbmOZM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXKVZnuyJUM&h
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwN1JlKBvM&feature=related
I turned around to see what was so much fun,and realized what happend,and tried to rescue him but as I lifted him up from underneath he fell off my hand and squeezed hir wings even more between my hand and the table before falling on the seat of the chair. I grabbed him quickly and checked his wings and he flew off, stayed up there for a good 30 sec flying angerly before getting back to my sholder.He then kept his wings tightly pressed agaisnt him,and I slowly checked to make sure nothing was broken by poking soflty,and stayed near him the rest of the time to make sure he was ok.
On a final note, I guess the sound was more of a irritated groan a kid makes and not a squeal but since he was smaller and a bird it sounded more high pitched.IT still sounded adorable,and is still vivid in my memory, it haunts me and makes me smile at the same time. His objections are adorable too, like when he wants to stay and roost on my face for hours when I need to do something. Or the way he opens his beak as a way of threatning my fingers along with tiny snaps,but runs away from them if that doesnt work.