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I should mention the new toys that she was originally afraid of are in her cage and she's OK with them. She doesn't touch any of her toys though. :?( She continues to very randomly step up. 90% of the time she forcibly pushes my finger up to her head for scratches. Sometimes she lightly bites my fingers to redirect me. If she takes it too far I close the door and walk away. Mostly, she steps up to get closer to me for he mating dance. Mostly in the morning. Although she must have some interest in coming out of her cage. But she's usually very scared when I take her out, looking for things to eat her. I can see it in her eyes and feel it in her grip. I'll sometimes slowly walk her around the room. Hopefully she'll get it soon. I can't take her to the bird meeting in September if she's this scared of everything outside her cage. She must have never been taken out. I can tell by the things she's been saying lately that her former owners where not happy with her. She's been telling her story. I've been tempted to text the guy, but that would probably just piss him off. He "wanted it gone". If I could only get her to understand "good bird step up", which is what I say when I take one of the other birds out and show her that they like to step up. She obviously has her own priorities!!

Wow, has she really opened up vocally!!! All kinds of stuff coming out of her mouth the last few days!! Including stuff she had to have picked up before we got her. "stop. Stop. STOP!!!" And, all of the sudden it's quite up there. Hmmm.... I better check.

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And I got her to step up after she came out onto the top. Although I don't know at what cost. She was kind of lightly huffing or crying, with her wings slightly open and slightly drooped and a slight shake. I'm thinking I got too touchy and she got "excited". Al she wants is scratches. Out of the cage she went easily from one hand to another, unlike our other 2 birds that are right hand only. She kept looking up at the ceiling. Maybe she's not used to the popcorn ceiling texture. I didn't take her more than a foot from her cage. And put her back after a couple of minutes. Once inside she was back to not wanting to step up. Although she's getting less resistant. A little while later we did it again. Same result.