I have taken the bird outside before. With no harness. DH takes him outside with the harness. The bird is bonded to me, so he has always stayed on my shoulder or my lap. No issues.

SS comes over to borrow some camping stuff. (taking bets on what we get back and what gets ruined). I am outside with bird on my shoulder. I go over to say hi to SS. He points a dang fishing pole at the bird and there goes the bird.

Soaring the in the sky. He did look quite beautiful, not going to lie. Big white and yellow wings. Freedom!

Well he lands in one of our trees. DH gets the ladder, SS climbs up. Bird flies away. He goes 3 houses down but the street behind us. I go running in the neighbors backyard. It had beeing raining a lot here, so the yards are just soaking wet, flooded and I am running in flip flops. Muddy mess. Find the bird on a roof. DH runs over with his ladder. Puts it to the roof, the bird flies away; even further. Thankfully he then landed on the ground and DH was able to get him.

Insert stiff drink into my hand. I was a mess the rest of the night.

It was totally my fault as I should not have had him outside with no harness. (yes they make bird harnesses- lol)Even though I never had any issues at all.

SS was very apologetic about pointing the fishing pole at him. He is just a doofus, stoner, burn out. Wasn't thinking. And honestly if it wasn't for him, we probably wouldnt of gotten the bird back. SS is the one that saw him on the roof (I had given up hope because I didnt see him) and then when he flew off the roof to the ground, SS saw him there where DH didn't.

That was our excitement for the night. Lesson learned. DH said we have to get his wings clipped to be extra safe in case a door gets left open, etc.