Baby “house finch” fell out of nest, still unable to fly, cats going crazy, what to do?
There’s been a nest of house finches in the “under-roof” of our backyard patio for the past few years (they come and go while reusing the nest), and the babies just hatched about a week ago I think. Two have fallen out (or have tried to fly and failed, we don’t know), and have been sadly eaten by our cat without our knowledge. There is now one left, and sure enough, he fell out of the nest too. The parents have been trying to coax him to fly since yesterday, but I honestly think he’s too young. He still has a few baby feathers on his head and is still all pudgy. We’ve locked the cats in the house but we can’t keep them in here forever, and the baby bird is still flailing around outside. The nest is really high up in a corner so I’m scared that we’d hurt the bird more than help if we tried to put him back with a shovel or something. What should we do?
