Am I sending the wrong signals when scratching my GW’s head?

[junglenutcracker]

In the past few weeks she’s really opened up to me and allowed me to touch her more and give her a few good head and neck scratches. Lots of pin feathers in there so I guess this helps and she must feel relief from all those itching feathers.

But when I give her a good scritch she lowers her head, almost completely closes her eyes and begins to grab at her tail feathers...

At that point I usually stop and change her focus by playing ball with her.

Don’t want to send her the wrong signals and begin an over-bonding issue.
Or is this a normal reaction...?

 

[Bandespresso]

It sounds to me like you have a very relaxed and content bird.

 

[Captsteve]

You are stopping right when he gets in the zone. Its kinda like when you are getting your back scratched and all the right spots are getting hit.

Keep going!!!!

 

[Solo]

Hard to say, Phoebe does this sometimes when I scratch her head, but hers seems to be more like "Oh that feels good! I just realized I itch somewhere/have a feather out someplace else". Fluffing up and yawning are also normal and ADORABLE! Glad to hear you're making progress with your GW.[emoji1]