This was just posted through my letterbox...

[NamingIsTough]

It's real, it moves. What the fuck do I do!?

Crikey Silver...... yes it does have a chance. Glad you weren't the one who found it

A sparrow couple nest in our eaves every year - they seem to rear 2 large broods a year and we get them falling out of the nest at exactly that stage of development, 2 or 3 that we find every single year (maybe more that local cats get before we see them) about half are dead when we find them but every year DD tries to hand rear at least one and they never live more than 48 hours no matter how dedicated she is feeding them morsels of cat food and drips of water... it must be natural selection that only the strongest few of each clutch survive.

i don't think you can save them that young without specialist equipment like heat lamps - near fledglings with full feather coverage and open eyes are possible or even likely to survive. but not the bald closed eyed hatchlings.

Id never kill it. Blimey.

Amelie what an odd question? I heard someone post something through it? How else do we know we have post?

Perhaps Amelie lives abroad - I think the UK might be the only country in the world where a letter box is a hole in your front door not an actual box on your garden wall or gate post or in the lobby if flats...

I hope you are getting this little one to a wildlife place asap....I had a find like this but luckily I was with a friend who had a car so we were able to drive to a place and we went back to see him too a couple of times - the only thing I remember about how they looked after him was a heat lamp or some such?

Google local bird rescue centres, and give them a call. Had to be a Sunday didn't it?

Silver, a vet wouldn't wring a bird's neck. What a horrible suggestion to make. If the vet really thought the nestling wouldn't survive, they put it in a box, with a chloroform soaked cotton wool ball to euthanise.

OP...... really recommend a wildlife hospital. Lots of expertise and right facilities. I had to do a 50 mile round trip but it was so worth it when I saw him a few months later. I guess some people just dont see the point but where there is life there is hope.... god, that makes me sound like a right chump but I would have to at least try.

I've found a wildlife hospital that's 39 minutes away, it's definitely worth it. I'll give them a call now.

Oh that's great OP...... keep us posted. Fingers crossed for the little one
That's a really useful link Rosie

Thanks for the link Rosie

Yes, I'll keep you posted! Thank you all

Please try listening outside first. You may hear the parents going berserk, they often do for a fledgling in trouble, there will be a chink chink chink kind of sound. If they're around and you can put it somewhere safe they'll continue to protect and feed it.

No idea where the nest is

Don't be so ridiculous silver years ago my mum's cat brought in a "chatted wren" and we took it to a wildlife sanctuary where it survived we later found out, it was older than this little thing but it was given a chance.

Poor little thing and glad you've got some good advice OP. Keep us updated to its progress - the centre is always happy to let you know by phone.

rosie wouldn't the parents abondon it now though?
As it has op's smell and whoever posted it?
Wtf posts a baby bird through a fucking letter box

Parent birds rejecting their baby because it has human scent on it is a myth.

Aww a little tiny baby bird. He's so sweet, bless him.
I have no advice. I just adore baby animals whether they're fluffy feathery or scaly.

A wildlife sanctuary will look after it- I am often dropping creatures off at our local one.

I'd look out in the garden. Are there any distressed birds out there looking for their baby.

I really don't fancy its chances .