My 5y/o parrot has grown distant after I got him a friend.

[Declipse]

I had him since he was 5 months old and I was his second owner. He never was "internet" tame/overly trusting nor listened to recall and I never forced him into anything (except vet visits for nail trims).
He always let me pet him and voluntarily chose to spend time around me when I let him out after he had stretched out his wings.
After being accepted into university I moved, I got him bigger cage (70x100x170) and since my parents weren't around to spend time with him it was decided that a friend would be needed. We got him (a senegal) a gal (a superb parrot). I expected some fighting or fuss, but they sorted out fairly quickly. There are times where they sit next to each other and I even saw them preening, and there are times when they are screeching and guarding a "better" perch.
The girl was raised with other birds and closed to none human interaction, so she is wild. I was hoping with time she would see how the other stays with me and that she will warm up... instead I feel like my Senegal is becoming wilder. He still let me pet him through cage, will come to me if I have food, let's me help him get onto a perch, but he doesn't let me scratch him like he used to do.
I have been crying over this for a while, each day hoping he will come to me when I let him out,, but he doesn't, unless I have food or something of interest, he stays away. I dont know what to do. I feel so selfish for thinking about separating them, I won't do it, not until I finish uni at least, but its eating away at me.

 

[linnielove]

It's so kind of you that you bought him a friend. It's quite normal that now the relationship to you isn't as close as it was before.
I have always adopted wild linnies as long as I have been keeping them. I love watching them interacting with each other and flying around in my living room. Max gives me kisses through the cage bars. And Kobi likes to chatter with me. That's enough.
Don't be too sad that your parrot is more close to his friend now. I hope I could console you a bit.

 

[Declipse]

You see, I did expect him to not be as interested in spending time with as he was before. I wouldn't mind that at all, but it's like I don't exist unless there is food in my hand.
If he just let me pet him when he is outside, for a few seconds, that's all I want. But he isn't human, I can't communicate that to him in a way that he could understand. I feel pathetic, he was the only reason I was happy to return home, he was my only constant company in my socially secluded life, but now, he had found someone better too.

 

[LaManuka]

I had him since he was 5 months old and I was his second owner. He never was "internet" tame/overly trusting nor listened to recall and I never forced him into anything (except vet visits for nail trims).
He always let me pet him and voluntarily chose to spend time around me when I let him out after he had stretched out his wings.
After being accepted into university I moved, I got him bigger cage (70x100x170) and since my parents weren't around to spend time with him it was decided that a friend would be needed. We got him (a senegal) a gal (a superb parrot). I expected some fighting or fuss, but they sorted out fairly quickly. There are times where they sit next to each other and I even saw them preening, and there are times when they are screeching and guarding a "better" perch.
The girl was raised with other birds and closed to none human interaction, so she is wild. I was hoping with time she would see how the other stays with me and that she will warm up... instead I feel like my Senegal is becoming wilder. He still let me pet him through cage, will come to me if I have food, let's me help him get onto a perch, but he doesn't let me scratch him like he used to do.
I have been crying over this for a while, each day hoping he will come to me when I let him out,, but he doesn't, unless I have food or something of interest, he stays away. I dont know what to do. I feel so selfish for thinking about separating them, I won't do it, not until I finish uni at least, but its eating away at me.
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I think you have done a wonderful thing for your Sennie. As you said, he was never a "velcro" bird as such, and although you had a bond (which l believe he still has with you by the way), considering the way he has taken to his new bird buddy it seems to me that your Superb has filled a void for him. Most parrots, with the possible exception of budgies, 'tiels and lovebirds who have been bred for many many more generations in domesticity, are not all that far removed from their wild cousins, they are flock creatures and still exhibit those instinctive needs and behaviours. Rather than many who fight and dislike each other, the outcome you've got with your pair is a good one. There is every chance that if you keep your interactions up with your Sennie he will return to his old ways in the way he relates to you. In the meantime, you have two birds who are happy because you brought them together and there is much beauty to be found in that, and I hope just a little comfort for you too.