The chimney sweep came this morning. I took Casper out in the garden to keep him out of the way whilst the chimney was being swept. When it was all finished the sweep started telling me about his bird, an African Grey (the sweep talks just like David Beckham by the way). Apparently the bird was found in a house about three days after the owner had passed away so the sweep took the traumatised parrot home whilst they tried to find the old boys family. Anyway the sweep ended up keeping the parrot which took a while to settle down after the trauma but it still continued to pluck. Until, that is, the sweep recently moved to a new house, the bird has now grown back all its feathers.
A wonderful story but I wonder what influenced the bird to stop plucking. I know AGs are very intelligent, do you think it decided that with the new house it could make a new start?