When the recall just won't stop!

So, Poe has becomes an absolute master flyer. He has NO tail (due being a particularly clumsy baby) which makes his ability to break so quickly all the more impressive. I've started recall training and he's loving it.
He's making it the whole way through the house, swooping over chairs and around corners before looping me several times before landing.
At which point he's super elongated and stares at me with an unnerving intensity. A 'click' and some grape is in order.
( Funny thing is, he doesn't recall over small distances like all the training books say. He just ruffles his feathers in contempt when asked to fly anything under 3 meters.)

Point being, he's cottoned on to the whole "Fly to me and get rewarded" principal, thus he's doing it ALL THE TIME!
It's cute, most of the time, but sometimes - like when I'm pouring a drink and suddenly my head is rudely smacked forward by the impact of Poe landing in my hair and whatever I've been pouring goes all over the bench top (as if I wasn't doing enough cleaning already) - it gets old pretty fast.

Any tips how I can train him to stay on his perch?

(He get's it during training that I only click if I've asked him to "come on", but outside training is the problem where no command is given or recall process initiated)

Thanks.

Only reward him when he flies to you on command, when he flies to you when you don't want him to don't give him a treat or a click. This should help some since he'll learn he only gets rewarded when you asked him to fly.

When he gets a tail he'll be amazing at flying D:

Copperarabian said:

Only reward him when he flies to you on command, when he flies to you when you don't want him to don't give him a treat or a click. This should help some since he'll learn he only gets rewarded when you asked him to fly.

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Thanks. The issue is that he just wants my attention, not a food reward. So just ignoring him makes him want to fly to me... vicious cycle.

Have you tried foraging toys or boxes on his play stand?

The next step may be stationing aka stay. Teach him to stay put in a spot and reward him. Start out with him staying for a few moments and reward. Slowly, over time, increase the amount of time he has to stay. You may want to figure out a way to pair it with the recall training so that he understands the difference between staying and flying to you.

And when staying put, as Copperarabian mentioned, keep him busy!