Blood spot on feather

[Lila Rio Rico]

Hi, I’m looking for some advice. So my budgie Rio has suddenly gotten a blood spot on the underside of his wing, he is fairly new and quite timid so I can’t lift his wing to check it properly, the only reason I saw it in the first place is because he was flying around. I’ve tried bribing him with some millet and attempted to lift his wing but he gets scared every time and won’t let me. I’ve read about the feathers that can cause them to bleed a lot but I don’t think it’s that, as he’s had it for a day now and it’s only small. I know I could try catch him in a towel but I really would rather use that as a last resort as he is still young and very wary around us, and if preferable I don’t want to undo the weeks of taming I’ve done unless I really have to. I do have a photo but it is extremely poor quality that I still can’t see what’s wrong with his wing properly, I can post the photo if you think it’ll help be I doubt it’ll help much at all. All I can see is that it’s not bright red it’s brown, like dried blood.

 

[Henderbird]

Oooh it may have been a small injury perhaps? Like something could have poked him.
Or maybe there was a broken blood feather and the blood stain was there until it eventually dried.

 

[Lila Rio Rico]

Oooh it may have been a small injury perhaps? Like something could have poked him.
Or maybe there was a broken blood feather and the blood stain was there until it eventually dried.

We have a perch on the outside, there is a metal screw that sticks inside but it isn’t very sharp at all, maybe he fell of his perch and caught himself? My budgies are a bit clumsy… other than that I’m not sure what he could have caught it on