[TREVOR K]

...of worms and dry fruit soaked in? water.This worked a treat with a baby blackbird last year,who i released successfully back into the wild.Will this diet be appropiate for a baby blue tit?

[Evo]

Any tits in my care I always, always look after them very carefully and pay them lots of attention....

[weeleesie]

Maybe also try dissolved honey in water (just a few drops of honey). My mum has used this on several rescued animals, including different birds and it works a treat.

[Prncss-Prple]

Titmice and blackbirds have very different diets. Get some suet, preferably high energy suet, from the store. Water it down with warm water and feed it to the baby bird in a dropper.

[LEOPARDSHAZ]

bLUE TITS ARE SO TINY AND FRAIL ITS HARD TO SAY TRY MEALY WORM AS WELL.i ONCE HAD A WHOLE BROOD OF 12 AND MUM IN MY BACK ROOM AND RELEASED ALL OF THEM IT WAS VERY HARD WORK.GOOD LUCK!

[JenE]

You truly need to contact a Wildlife Rehabber. Wild birds are not created equally. A black bird is much easier to care for then anything in the Tit family. Some of the advice above may potentially kill your baby. My best advice is to contact a rehabber ASAP so that the bird can receive the proper care and possibly be released.

[Pawstimes16]

Blue tit s do not eat the same as blackbirds Food: mainly insects and their larvae, spiders, seeds, fruit, grain, nuts and buds. Someone has already mentioned suet which is good, but not too much, go to pet shop and get some budgie seed, you will need to squish it and make it mushy before feeding.

[murphy]

Anyone finding a baby bird should always look round nearby for the nest it has fallen from, handle as little as possible and try to pop baby back with its siblings. If it is a fledgling, check there are no preditors around (if its your garden pop your cat indoors) wait out of the way and watch to see if mum is nearby, she may be watching and will call and encourage when the coast is clear if you leave it alone. Always give it a chance to be found by the mother bird as she is always the best mum for it.If this is hopless then pop it in a little box & take to the nearest wildlife rescue unless you are experienced in rearing wild baby birds, especially if it is very young. Rescue centres will have other orphans in their care at all stages and your little bird will fair better with others around it, stimulating it to beg for food with all the others. They will have incubators, rescue remedy & all the right foodstuff for whichever species it is as well as available vetinary advice. Little birds do not always survive and it is sad not to give it the best possible chance.If you do decide to keep it to rear yourself ring a bird rescue to get precise instruction on diet, amounts and feeding techniques dependant on approx age of the bird. You should not make it tame, handle as little as possible. You may want to give it to them when it is grown so they can release into an aviary with others to desensatise it from humans prior to release. It may seem cute to make them tame but it could be its demise if it has no fear on release.Good luck I do hope your little bird survives.

[tamar]

hello

As my mum was driving in to our drive way we saw a baby blue tit hoping around on it(we have a nest of blue tits in the edge of are roof it must of fallen out there).my brother got out and picked it up and put it in a nest box near its families nest.we went inside and looked through the window it jumped down so we kept watching to see if its parents fed it, the siblings of the bird were comunicating with it but the parents were ingnoring it.so we took it inside and put it in a box with shreaded paper and a warm lamp shining in one corner to keep it warm.In the morning it was tweeting oveiosly hungry we fed it a small wax worm which it took happily but people say to feed them meal worms won't they choke on the outer shell of it?how do we give it water and food? is there any other foods you can think we can feed it or any advice on how to look after it?
Please give me some advice i want to help it.
thankyou from tamar