Geri is my first little bird, he is very close to humans and wants to play with us every day. But it's a little too clingy. He hates being in the cage as long as it's daytime, even if there are toys and food in the cage. He would frantically bang and try to open the cage, a behavior that led to a constant mess in his cage.
I tried to buy him more toys to entice him to stay in his crate and gave up feeding him in the hand and just let him eat in his crate. But that didn't help, now he just flies to the side of the cage when he's hungry and waits for us to open it, then he goes in to eat and after he eats he continues to bang on the cage like crazy until we open it and let him out.
It's not that I hate that he flies around the house, because I really like him. But I was in college and my parents had full time jobs and we didn't have much time for him. And I'm really worried that he's hurting himself by banging on the cage.