As a child, I remember rescuing a bird from the mouth of my cat and trying to do my best for the wee thing. I recall making up a box for a bird with some paper in the bottom, diligently going to the garden to find worms and chop them up to feed a sparrow and checking on it every ten minutes or so to see if it was OK. Some hours later if it was still alive I would convince my parents to drive us our local wildlife rehabilitator where I would gratefully hand over the sparrow an