Mid-moult update

My previous post didn't work for some reason, so i shall explain what has happened since February. After waking him for a weekend, he dropped a tail feather; this meant that he had started the moult. The moult is when a bird drops its feathers and grows new ones, this is a slow process, because the bird needs to be able to fly at all times they only loose one feather at a time. He is now well into the moult and has grows some of his new wing feathers  back, also he has turned a dark red colour on his upper body which is what adult birds look like. It will be two months at maximum before he will be ready to train and fly, the reason you have to leave the bird during feather growth is because you can't cause stress to it or the feather may become weak and break.