How To Look After A Baby Blackbird. Young blackbirds spend much of their time on the ground after leaving the nest remember even the adults are ground feeding birds for much of their lives. If you have found a baby bird and can clearly tell that it is a hatchling or fledgling you can return it to its nest.
If the bird is on a busy path or road or other potentially dangerous exposed location it makes sense to pick it up and move it a short distance to a safer place. Fledglings should be left where they are in the care of their parents. If you have found a baby bird and can clearly tell that it is a hatchling or fledgling you can return it to its nest.
They can be vulnerable from predators at this time but you should resist the temptation to make a rescue - the parent birds can do a much better job than we ever can.
Baby blackbirds usually leave the nest before they can actually fly and hop and scramble their way around trees and bushes. Look for the following signs of injury or illness in both nestling and fledgling baby birds. This is because the baby birds head has not yet fully formed. How to care for a Baby Blackbird.