Help !!

Hello all,

Last night, my cat decided to attack a song thrush. I ran up to my cat shouting and he ended up dropping the bird and running away. It was in shock but not badly injured, just a little puncture wound on his neck but he is still able to use both wings (I’m not sure if it’s a he but we’ve been calling it one). 

We brought the bird inside and put it on a blanket in front of my electric heater (at a safe distance) until he calmed down, then got some tissue and started cleaning up the blood around his wound. By the time that the bird had settled, it was probably around 10/11pm so we tried to let him back out in the garden but he wouldn’t move from next to us and when we walked away, he’d follow. 

We decided to then keep the bird in our house until morning, in a shoe box (open) full of tissue in my wardrobe with one of the doors propped open slightly if he felt trapped. I woke up at 9am to the taps of his little feet in the shoe box and he’s doing much better, now chirping which he wouldn’t last night.

This little guy is super friendly, has been letting us handle and help him but we know you can’t exactly keep them. We know close to nothing about song thrushes or birds in general but have tried our best to give him a little pot of water and some berries, although he doesnt seem interested in either. He’s now sleeping next to us on the bed and has no interest in going out our door back into the garden, regardless of all the other birds we have chirping and singing. 

Note: We are based in the Isle of man so don’t have a lot of facilities for situations like these, we are just desperate to help this little guy.