Blue skies! (Kind of)

Well, the last treatment was yesterday, he's tearing into food like he's never seen it before, and cast a pellet early yesterday morning... SO, by all indications things should be just fine. Blue skies for Arion, though overcast, gray skies for the rest of Oregon =).

He's weak, he's lost a lot of muscle mass between being sick and lack of flying, so we'll ease back into it with a series of short vertical jumps, then short flights, working into longer flights on the creance, then back to free-flying and hunting as soon as possible. My main concern right now is packing the weight on him to bring him back up to his trapped weight, so we can get a real picture of what his healthy combat weight should be.

This second go-round will be interesting from a training point of view, because he may (or may not) be a totally different bird this time. He was awfully quick to train, which is not unusual, but may not be so laid-back when he's feeling good as when he was ill, and handling may be more of a challenge. We'll see! Never a lack of new adventures, that's for sure.