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If you have prolonged numbness in your finger, he could have inadvertently hit a nerve. You might want to have it looked at.

But i still can't feel my finger...

I agree with all of you, even you, Steven Stills! My stepdad said, and I agree, Timmy means no harm. He's sweet, and he loves me, but he still has the wild in him. Dogs can be trained, and are expected to be trained to be tame and docile. They've been domesticated for a long, long time. I mean, look at a corgi. That's not a wild animal. Cats have been domesticated for much less time, in the big picture. And birds - birds are hardly domesticated at all. I mean, our birds wouldn't be able to handle the wild, but they're still wild animals!

Greytness said >>My Scarlett takes it one step further. If I'm holding him and an unknown visitor comes to my home, he'll displace a bite of displeasure onto me. Ouch! << An old saying I heard in the 90s re: this biting behaviour with parrots" "If you can't bite the one want, honey, bite the one you're with" (hopefully someone on here is old enough to recognize the song this lyric was parodied from). I am getting old. lol So true with parrots around people they don't want to be around.

It's just what they do. Other species of birds, too. If they are displeased by something, how else can they relay that message to us? My Scarlett takes it one step further. If I'm holding him and an unknown visitor comes to my home, he'll displace a bite of displeasure onto me. Ouch! Can't figure out if he's trying to warn me of perceived danger or that he's biting because he can't reach any of the visitor's appendages.

Same here. We adopted Snickers in 1997 and he took to me immediately -- hated/loathed my husband. And he would even fool hubby by being sweet to him, luring him in -- then surprised hubby with a super-fast BITE. Bad bites -- tissue damage bites. Snickers just doesn't bite me. Even when Snickers is unhappy about something, and holding my finger a bit tighter than I wish he would -- he always stops short of an actual bite. Biting: I don't know if it's true hate involved or just the sheer joy achieved in watching the drama that follows a bite. So sorry this happening to you. Greys are just so smart and tend to do whatever they want -- no matter how much baby them, treat them, give in to their wants. They are always capable of a bite. Even I am at risk of a serious bite... and my grey adores me. That's a grey for ya.