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The "mouth-to-mouth" was the adult feeding its fledgeling. You said the young one "looked in a bad way". As he was feeding there was probably not much wrong with it, but can you describe what you saw to concern you?
Can you pick it up (or get someone to pick it up for you) and put it out of harm's way on the tree for a while. The parent birds will provide it with the food and water that it needs and you will be able to determine from a distance whether its inability to fly is because it is too young to do so or whether it is because it is injured.
As Little Bird's post about gardens suggested, if you are in the UK or Europe then it is most likely to be a wood pigeon that you are watching (the parent bird would have a white band on its neck). Can you have a look at its tail and tell us how long it is? That will help us calculate whether it is old enough to have left the nest.
Cynthia
Cynthia
Can you pick it up (or get someone to pick it up for you) and put it out of harm's way on the tree for a while. The parent birds will provide it with the food and water that it needs and you will be able to determine from a distance whether its inability to fly is because it is too young to do so or whether it is because it is injured.
As Little Bird's post about gardens suggested, if you are in the UK or Europe then it is most likely to be a wood pigeon that you are watching (the parent bird would have a white band on its neck). Can you have a look at its tail and tell us how long it is? That will help us calculate whether it is old enough to have left the nest.
Cynthia
Cynthia