Steve Martin introduces himself and the staff at the Sunday night icebreaker session at Chalet Suzanne
Steve giving one of the lectures with his Mac and the video screen.
A view of some of the course participants in the classroom.
More of the students in class.
Steve kept our attention.
There were lots of laughs to go around, I think everyone enjoyed the course.
Steve Martin and his staff of trainers at one of the daily wrap up sessions where we discussed our high points of the day over relaxing beverages.
Happy Jack the Amazon who did not like men! I think I must have been pretty scared of him, sitting just a few feet away. Anyway, this was a blurry picture.
Neesie with her Toco Toucan.
Another.
Kaya getting a reinforcer.
Neesie with the Toucan.
Toco Toucan taps the disk which was used in the training.
Wow! What beautiful coloring.
Ah, the delightful Anna the blue throated Macaw who was my trainee for the course.
Anna in profile. This was taken in the outdoor tent in which we did a lot of our training with the Julio the Galah Cockatoo and Linus the Greenwing Macaw. Susan and Kate are in the background.
Another of Anna.
Anna pokes her beak out. Yes, I'm intimidated! It looks a lot bigger than my cockatoo boys. But she was very gentle.
Students in the high enclosure area.
Students in the low enclosure area. Susan in the foreground.
Kate with Linus the greenwing macaw.
Linus with a nut. Note the heater bucket attached to the enclosure. This was used to warm the birds overnight.
Linus with Kate cueing his behavior and Cassie our team leader looking on.
Steve drops by the guided training session and offers some ideas to Neesie.
Steve snaps a photo. He was everywhere taking pictures with Susan in the background. Steve and Wouter were everywhere taking pictures. A couple of months after the course NEI sent all the students a couple of CDs with all the pictures that they took during the training.
Cassie and Kate with Linus.
Julio gets ready for Susan's cue to fly around the tent pole.
Julio poses to present his good profile.
Looking down the hallway of the low enclosure.
Looking over the shoulder of the guided training session. That's Kate's head in the foreground as Nessie trains her Toucan, guided by Cassie.
Harpy eagle in his enclosure. Both eagle and enclosure are BIG.
Harpy presents his profile.
Harpy takes a close look at us.
I think that it's an Ibis.
Is it a Lorie? What beautiful color. All the cages were labeled with the species, but I neglected to take a picture of them.
Covids converse.
And there be Hornbills here too!
An an egyptian vulture?
A white red tailed hawk, but not an albino.
Hawk and Horned owl in the raptor enclosure.
Looking at the raptor enclosure.
