Baby Blue Tit Found HELP

[kelbert1000]

Ive just found a baby blue tit, its currently in a cat basket in a quite room of the house it has feathers although the tail ones are slightly frayed like hes been dragging them on the floor. He cant fly yet. Where i found it, there was a road which cars speed up and down on which he was right in the middle of and lots of crows flying around. It is also a heavly cat populated place. Any help would be brilliant. What to feed it? How i need to contact?

[Picidae]

Before trying to feed it, check out the other threads on here and read the link I've posted below for immediate care.

Hand Rearing Garden Birds etc. (Small Passerines) (Techniques)

Emergency # Mix of insectivorous bird food, cat food, canary rearing mix.(D24)
# Short term alternative: chopped hard boiled egg mixed with moist digestive biscuit. (D24)
# Food mix: crushed soaked biscuit, scrambled egg, thin strips of ox heart or a few pieces of cut up earthworm. Moisten food before feeding. (D29)

* Also small insects e.g. greenflies, green caterpillars, ant cocoons, cut up earthworms (depending on size of the bird).(D29)
* Add vitamin/mineral supplement. (D29)

# Two parts cat food, two parts Sluis Universal Food (Sluis) or Orlux ), one part water, liquidise and left for five minutes before feeding.(D26)
# For very small species such as blue tits, sieved hard-boiled egg mixed with a little water to form a paste, and with crushed biscuit added as the nestlings grow. (D26)Hard-boiled egg (boil 30 minutes), passed through sieve, and mixed with four times volume of sweet biscuit, add pinch of salt, add water so crumbly-moist. Store in refrigerator but do not feed chilled.(B118.5.w5). Use of this mixture without any added salt is suggested.


Try and contact the nearest rehab to you for immediate assistance. Hopefully, RKB can offer you some advice as soon as he sees this post. If no one else comes to your assistance shortly, some finely chopped boiled egg mixed with a little moist cat food fed with a pair of tweezers (if you have no live insects in the house!) and you need to keep it a constant warm body temperature, although being feathered not too warm! Ideally, in the morning taking it back to the location you found it (obviously not the middle of the road) and trying to find a nest/other fledged blue tits in the vicinity, then placing it in a position of safety in the nearest bush might be it's best chance of survival imo. It's never a wise decision to hand rear wild birds if it can be possibly avoided.

If you feed it, do not handle it and try to feed it in a way that doesn't present your face to it!

Bump!

[curlylad]

I have just rescued a very small blue tit from one of our cats.
It does not have any obvious damage, its head, body, wings, tail feathers and legs all seem fine and undamaged.
I picked it up and put it in a dark, warm room on a towel, at first its chest was beating that fast it looked as if it would die from shock, however after about 2 hours it appears to have calmed down and is singing its head off, I presume calling its mother. However I do not want to let it go yet as Im not sure it can fly that far, it has been flying around the room but after only a 3 to 4 second flight it drops to the floor looking exhausted again.
I have made up a feed of mashed egg and cat food and am going to attempt to feed it to the bird with tweezers on the hope that it will eat it and then after an hour or so it may be strong enough to attempt the journey back to its nest.

Am I doing the right thing here, any advice please a.s.a.p.

curlylad.

[solus]

Put the bird back as soon as possible in a safe place in the garden (in a shrub for example) where hopefully the parent birds will find it and feed it. Assuming it was raised in or close to your garden? Or if you are pretty sure it was from a neighbour's garden see if you can place it there: it really needs to be close to where it came from in order for the parents to locate it. Keep the cat indoors!

Once they have fledged, baby birds do not return to the nest.