Wow, I missed this whole thing...I like a happy ending! Good job Jen!
I'm going to be the party-pooper here Heedless...No more talking your bird outside without her being either wearing a harness with a leash attached to it and to you, or inside of a cage/carrier!!! No more free-parrots outside! Even a bird with clipped-wings can fly miles with the wind, and if they have their wings then obviously they're usually gone...And that's typically how this happens, even to professionally-trained "free-flight" parrots, something happens to scare them, a noise, a person walks by, a car drives by, a door shuts, etc. You just cannot take your parrot outside without a harness or without them being in a cage...
There, I said my peace...Congrats, so glad that this had a happy ending, and so quickly too...It doesn't usually work-out like this in such a short amount of time!