Oh no.... I need some advice...

[Chickengal505]

Okay, hey guys, I'm gonna try and make this short...
So about a week ago, I remembered that there was a small bird house nailed to the side of my sister's swing set. So I go out walking aroung the post and I notice starw poking out from inside. I grab a chair and a flash light and peer inside. There are three blue eggs. "oh well" I think as I've never seen a mama bird around the bird house. "must've been layed last year" And I walk off. Yesterday I'm looking up at the bird house and see somthing moving. So I go get my trusty chair & flashlight and look in, half expecting an angry mama bird to fly out asnd try to abduct my eyes. Insted I see the Uglyest/cutest baby chicks I've ever seen. I'm looking aroung and I don't see a bird ANYWHERE. So I leave my chair and flash light there, so I can check on them in the future. Today I go out and the poor babies are kind of listless looking. I've never seen a baby bird look so... frail. I have no clue what I did if anything. Did me possably breathing on the eggs make the mother leave them? Or did she leave them at all? I've been home most of the time and I'm yet to see a bird take any interst in the nest at all. So do I take them out? Or leave them and hope mama comes back? I didn't touch them at all, and yet I can't help but feel like it's my fault... I need some guidance... what do I do?

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Mama bird will come back - don't worry. When they first hatch, baby birds hunker down in the nest and do look rather listless and cold. Once they start getting feathers is when they will start moving around more.

 

[klmclain1]

First - it is untrue for MOST birds that if you touch the eggs/babies they'll abandon them....so you've done nothing wrong or to harm them. They sound like baby Robins by the way. IMHO, I would leave them alone and let nature take its course. It's more likely than not that the mom is around. You have basically a zero chance of saving them if you remove them. Again...this is just my opinion.

 

[vtgirls]

We had baby birds fall out of a high nest in a big pine. It was way too high too return them to. We nailed a plastic orange juice jug we cut the top off of to the side of the tree as high up as we could reach. We put a couple small holes in the bottom in case of drainage trouble and put grass clippings in there. Then we popped the fuzzies into the "nest". Although through all of this we never saw or heard the mother bird, she came back later in the day and raised them a few more days until they could fly. Hope it turns out as good for you!