Urgent advice needed

[Gillyt]

Hi, can anyone give me any advice, yesterday my two year old son found a baby sparrow in the garden which had fallen from its nest, i thought best to leave it alone but last night it still hadnt moved and i placed it into a hanging basket as my neighbour has four cats, the mother and i think what is the father too has been visiting it regular today,im not too sure what to do now

[JeffH]

Hi Gilly

My advice would be to do nothing, other than keep an eye on it to see that it doesn't fall out of the hanging basket.

If the parents have located it in the hanging basket and have been visting it regularly (presumably to feed it) I'd let nature take its course.

Baby birds develop fairly rapidly at the fledgling stage and, hopefully, it will take flight within a day or two.

Jeff

[Gillyt]

The sparrow jumped out the basket this morning, and is in the corner of the garden on the floor, the mother is still returning to it.