How to comfort my grieving budgie?

[silver wharf]

I'd like to start this off with saying I've not yet bonded with her. My budgies didn't quite trust me and I haven't been able to create a link between us, and this is especially hard to start doing right now as my brother moved back in and he has a puppy (though he's moving out again soon)

Yesterday, my male budgie died. We don't know why or how, there was no signs of injury or blood so we don't think Caspian killed him.

When we got them from the petstore (I'm aware that petstores aren't very ethical and that could very well have had an effect on Charlie's lifespan) they were bonded, they sat next to eachother and wouldn't leave eachothers sides, and they always slept near eachother in the cage

I can tell by the way she's screeching and crying that she's mourning him and I was told that when they discovered Charlie, she was sitting next to him and chirping. How can I help her? I've tried to do some research and it tells me to give her more attention but I don't want to try handling her if it's going to stress her out or make anything worse.

[misty widget]

I had this happen to my male budgie, all Huggies are different and show emotions in different ways. But I was able to help him by giving him about two weeks without trying to handle him, since you have yet to handle yours k believe that maybe just being around and talking to her could help. Nothing too overwhelming, just being around while reading, on your phone, stuff like that.

If she seems to get any worse in her way of grieving try removing things like mirrors or reflective things, they could make her feel like she is still there with him.
She may freak out at first but just keep it away for about a week

[silver wharf]

Thank you very much. I hope that I can bond with her at some point and it should be maybe a bit easier now that school is out, but I'm still not sure the easiest or quickest way to get her to trust me, I've tried hand feeding fruits but they never took them.

Thank you for the advice, I'll be sure to watch her closely and I'll try to be near her cage more often.