Baby Blue tits in the garden?

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we have 2 baby blue tits in the garden in a nest box, the parents are still around and everything but we are trying to give them a bit of food by hand to see if they will come back next year and have their own babies here. At the moment they keep half flying half falling out of the box and they hop around for a bit but then just sit under the box, not knowing how to get back up there. The parents will fly next to it and give it food but they haven't even got their adult feathers yet and so i put my hand down and they hop onto it and i put them back in the box. I do this 1, because they have no other way of getting back up there and 2 we have quite a few cats in the area so i am scared they will get one.
Is there any food we can give a baby blue tit so that it gets used to us or how to handle them properly?, even though we have handled them a little bit the parents are still both around and haven't abandoned the babies so is it okay to keep doing what we are doing?
thanks for you help
they are in a box on the fence, i dont want them to get hurt :(
 
This is normal. Most birds' chicks leave the nest before they can fly and the parents then tend to them on the ground. The cats are a drag, but putting the chicks back into the nest won't work. They will just hop out again and again. Interfering too much can lead to the chicks being abandoned so monitor that carefully and try not to upset the parents. The babies will fly away much sooner than you think even though they now have baby feathers.

Oh ya - The best way to protect the chicks from roaming cats is to leave them alone and not draw unecesary attention to their whereabouts. Baby birds have been hiding from cats for millenia.
 
This is normal. Most birds' chicks leave the nest before they can fly and the parents then tend to them on the ground. The cats are a drag, but putting the chicks back into the nest won't work. They will just hop out again and again. Interfering too much can lead to the chicks being abandoned so monitor that carefully and try not to upset the parents. The babies will fly away much sooner than you think even though they now have baby feathers.

Oh ya - The best way to protect the chicks from roaming cats is to leave them alone and not draw unecesary attention to their whereabouts. Baby birds have been hiding from cats for millenia.
 
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