Help me with my new lovebird please! :)

Hello there forum, i just signed up here to try and hopefully fetch some expert advice to benefit both my bird (boris) and myself.

Now it's been two days since my little peach faced lovebird arrived to my house. First of all ill give you all a detailed view of whats been happening lately between me and the bird.

Day 1.

4pm - Boris enters his new cage, which is suitable for a Macaw sizewise. (i wanted my bird to be able to fly around and have a pleasant life.)

4.30pm - Boris escapes his new cage, he was able to climb out of the grid. i was lucky he i was supervising him at the time, since i ran and closed the windows which were open since it was 30 degrees C outside that day. Otherwise i guess it would have been byebye at day 1 which would have been sad considering my 1000 hours of preparations. As he escaped the cage i understood there was no chance for me to capture him, and he would just fly out again, so we let him freeroam the room he was currently in for about three hours as we were fixing the cage problem (we wrapped chickenfence around it)....

7.30pm Now we had to capture him and put him back into his cage, note that he was happy at the time, that room he was in is really really big and has atleast 5 - 4 meters in roof height so it was probably the most free he has ever been in his life. And as he flew through the room i jumped with a sheath and captured him to ensure i would inflict no sorts of injuries. And as we let him out into his cage he seemed really fine...

9pm Bedtime, as i had been reading to him for awhile but mostly leaving him alone i had him in the cage beside my bed before we went so sleep.. Z z Z z

Day 2.

Today we have made more progress, i was able to put my hand 5-10 cm away from him outside the cage by being slow and i had been around him for along time that day. So he had probably gotten used to me since he is now placed besides my computer. but i will leave him here now untill he is tame or whatever. I've seen him drink water and eat food, i even purposely took my hand inside the cage and refilled his empty food can so he could see i was providing him with food. Ive probably spent 6 hours total or more in his prescens for the last two days. Ive had my hand inside the cage and i moved it closer to him untill he started to move back then i immidiatly brought my hand back slowly so he could see i was not hostile.

So now my wonders are, where do i go from here? He seems to be really afraid of objects sounds and sometimes even me, do you have any tips? He is neither handfed or handtame and has never ever been tame since i bought him new by 11 - 12 weeks or something. Tips please? I want to slowly ensure that i dont need to get another lovie for his well being, i want to be his love mate u know and i have the time to provide him whith that! Thanks for any help, and please respond nicely!

Remember, birds a prey animals. This little bird will be afraid of everything for a while. My best advice is to not rush things. Just keep doing short interactions, building trust. Everything else will come from there.

Yup. I just got my lovebird cream about 6 weeks ago. If you let him get used to things, he'll warm up faster. If your bird is clipped, you can let him out and let him explore. Actually, my bird has grown most of his feathers back I think, and flies around my apartment! The only thing that kind of sucks about that is that he poops on the floor and can be a real pain in the butt to get back in his cage sometimes, but he really loves it. I just lead him in there with the back of my hand, takes a bit sometimes but it does the trick. Don't do this until he's fully acclimated to his cage and has been there for a bit. If you live in a house close the windows so he doesn't fly out... If he isn't clipped you would want to hold off on that... don't rush anything and always move slowly around your bird! You don't want them to think you're a predator! After a while, if you put food in your hand he might come up and eat some and then be more acclimated to your hand. He can still be skepitcal but once he gets the food he's as happy as can be.

That's how cream and I are going anyhow. He is a lot more calm around me, and walks right up and onto me! He's crazy! But I love him. He's getting slowly but surely more tame. Also, Cream was an adult when I got him, so we're definitely making progress! You can do it too. Find out what works for your birdie!