Balmoral bonnet and feathers...

[Mael Coluim]

Well, there you have it. So if you are to be denied feathers in your cap what choice is being left to you? Probably nothing unless you fancy some strange plant stuck in your balmoral. It is actually quite educational reading all this advice from residents of the "land of the free" who are ready to counsel against the possibility of antagonising the feelings of some hereditary individual who has derived his rights to something simply through an accident of birth. Does this mean that they feel this is all right for somewhere else just so long as it doesn't happen here? An interesting conundrum indeed.

Along with no kilt police there are no feather police here in the US. Maybe different in Scotland, though The OP asked for what do we think? So, I gave him my personal opinon. He can wear what he wants.

Now on the other hand, at least here in the US, if he wears a dandelion in his cap badge he will get much more recognition by being affiliated with this membership than wearing some bird feather in his bonnet that only will be recognized by some as trying to be something he is not. Just my opinion.
But again, he can wear what he wants.

[Dale-of-Cedars]

Along with no kilt police there are no feather police here in the US.

Umm, yes there are...