Skye's head

I agree with Caseysmom. It's probably nothing to be worried about. Peppy's head was like that recently, and I never figured out what it was, but theorized that he scratched his head when he had some gunk on his foot. Try offering a bath. If he doesn't want that, you can try wetting a q-tip or something like that, and wipe it away. I don't know about Skye, but when Peppy is feeling cuddly, he really enjoys having his head feathers gently tugged. You could try that with wet fingers.

If they look kind of like the ones in the picture below, then they are pin feathers. When new feathers come in, they have a waxy coating on them that needs to come off. Most of them can be taken care of by the bird preening, but the ones on the head area can't be reached.

The way I understand it is in the wild the members of the flock will help preen each other and remove these. But since we are our birds flock, we can help them! It may take a while for Skye to let you help with them, but you can keep working on it, and eventually Skye will likely be very thankful for your help, as these can be painful for the little guys. What I do is first break them up between my fingernails, then rub the pin feather beteen my fingers gently.

When you grab them and break them up between your fingernails, be very very careful not to pull up as you do.

If I happen to grab one that's not ready to be removed yet, Yoshi lets me know by turning his head around and gently nipping my fingers.

Not sure if these images worked. I usually have trouble with my home computer!!! Let me know if you can see them. Should be 4 of them. He was a little nervous I think in one of them because the sound of my phone camera hahaha!

Thanks for all the advice! Much appreciated!

Edit: Hmm looks like one pic worked will post individually then

Ok that's it! I'm going out for a little bit now (damn grocery shopping) but I'd planned on trying a bath later today. He successfully had one the week after we had him, then I kept trying and he wasn't interested. Then last week I had his water dish out of his cage and I offered it to him for a drink. He had a drink and I put it on the table and stepped away, well the little bugger hopped right in! Then last night as I was putting him to bed I did the same thing and he was trying to jump in again, but it was too late and didn't want him going to bed wet lol so I stopped him. So today I'll try a dish a bit bigger (as he was struggling with his semi bath last week). But if that worries him, I'll just bring his water dish out and put fresh water in again Thanks for all the advice. I'm pretty sure it is what you have all suggested

I agree with Biteybird. Shah is into a light moult at the moment and is getting pin feathers through.