baby blue tit in my garden !advice needed!

Foyleswar, the advice from the RSPB is to leave it be.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpingbirds/health/babybirds.aspx

If I were you I'd keep my eye on it and if you spot a lurking bleedin' cat, go shoo it off.

cheers tommy t , will keep an eye on it for cats and the like !

Good man.

magpies are a bigger threat than cats - watch out for them too...

On STV on Sunday, there was a prog. on the telly where a pigeon flew into a window - leaving a powdery mark. The bird rescue lady picked the pigeon up to examine its wings for damage...she was saying what they were going to do to help it and the pigeon's head just dropped in her hands...it expired from the stress and shock. The woman kept talking, on camera, like...even though the opposite of what she was predicting had just happened...aftertimer...

cheers lads no betting for me today no point will be distracted by the birds  will be too  busy keeping up with events in the garden good luck with yours and will update with any news of the little fella !

"Aye, the pigeon huz joost died there, like..."

Eh?? Whit??

re blue tits - saw this cartoon in Private Eye last week.
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http://i58.tinypic.com/dmp2fc.jpg

"Aye, the pigeon huz joost died there, like..."

Eh?? Whit??

Couldn't help but chuckle, Vel!

It was probably the daft bat picking it up and examining it on tv that caused its demise.

I've had loads of pigeons fly in to my back living room window and leave a full outline of their bodies with the powdery stuff they shed when doing so.
I've always rushed to the window to see if the bird is on the ground anywhere, injured, but I've never seen a one.

Found a dead Bullfinch in my garden, yesterday. It had flown into the side of the greenhouse ! very sad, beautiful bird, one of my favourites.

it appears the parent birds are feeding the bird and also flying into the nestbox with food ! think this little fella has made an escape bid ,another couple of jailbreakers on the run today ,it must be catching ,think I will name him scullcracker after that one who was on the run last week .

i have a little nest out the garden also,not sure but looking them up it looks like a coal tit,5 of the noisy little s0ds in there

anti-cat thread reported

at first i thought this was a fred about colin moynihan, now its turned into one about arthur scargill.

how do you know its a coal tit, is it on strike?

they look like Chinese coal miners

the little fella is going to freeze nuts off tonite  ,should i bring him for the nite  and put him in a bird cage and put him back out  at  the crack of dawn ? seems the parent birds disappear as soon as it gets dark !

Would it be possible to put it back into the nesting box? You would need to wear gloves to hide your human scent (your smell, if you like! ).
I think overnight outside might be too much for a small fledgeling. I suppose bringing it indoors might just work...any chance is better than none.

I protected a young pigeon once from the cats - because I am kind.

It had fallen out of its nest.
I put it in the shed at night out of harms way, and took it out in the morning when its mother would come down to feed it.

It managed to fly on to the top of my hedge after about a week then it flew away.
I expect I'll go to heaven when I die.

I've just Googled 'How to save a fledgeling'...good help, guidance and tips there. Please try that.

Foyle

Just leave it. It's fledged  ( left the nest) it will be secreted in undergrowth , and hopefully will not be predated . Human contact will cause stress and parent birds may reject it

Patrick star

Coal tits can be distinguished by white patch to the back of the head

facts my garden is paved with a  raised pond in one corner and plant pots along both sides of fences with a back gate ,i have put paving slabs against the gap of the back fence to hopefully stop anything crawling under ,cant put him in the undergrowth surrounding the pond as he might drown in the pond and he is vulnerable up against the walls of the fence ,i could put gloves on and put him in one of the pots with a bit of undergrowtnh in it ?

Patrick cold tits can be identified by protusion of the nipples !

May 21, 2014 -- 12:49PM, FOYLESWAR wrote:

the little fella is going to freeze nuts off tonite

he is sitting on the ground but the parents are still feeding him !

May 21, 2014 -- 12:49PM, FOYLESWAR wrote:

the little fella is going to freeze nuts off tonite

i would put it back at the crack of dawn. should be nice and warm, but mind she doesn't squash it (got there eventually)

It's Nature. Let it take it's course. Parents will do all they can to make it survive.

wondering if he jumped ship because it was too crowded in the nestbox ? have had 10 or 11 chicks before in the box ,

yeah think i will facts ,hope hes still going strong in the morning ,growing quite attatched to him feel i have a responsibility towards him now parents still bringing grub for him !