The Orphaned Sparrow

This little guy was found (twice) in our yard yesterday. The first time the boys had found him out back and brought him to me. I let him go out front (without the boys knowing because I didn't want them following him again). Well, the second time he was traveling IN the red wagon being pulled by the boys. should I mention that the boys had him " in a seatwell? "swimming" Look mom! He's swimming!
Well, I about lost it right them and there and had a nice talk with them about how we DONT do that to animals!!! Ughhhhh...
So, Now this little guy was inside being gently, carefully blow-dried by me. Yes, I said blowdried. He was soaked to the skin and I put the dryer on low and cool and worked his wings open and gently dried him.
Thanks to YouTube I looked up on what to do with this little guy.
It said:
1) Put him in a warm dry box with paper towels (I added a heating pad underneath) Cozy!
2) Put dry dog-food in some water and turn it to mush (yummmmmm)~~~ gagging
3) Feed the little guy with a syringe tube... every 20 minutes because the mother bird make 300 trips a day to the nest! Holy Shi* I thought humans were busy!

So, he took to the syringe right off, makes a bit of a mess but when I try to clean his beak he bites me (I thought this was a little ungrateful but considering my boys had him floating in their wagon.... yeah, I am owed...)

So, here he is. I hope he makes it. He looks so near being able to be on his own yet he still can't fly. So, maybe after about 20,000 feedings he'll be ready?
So much for my free-time now that the kids are in school! Funny how that works!

I should go, its bout time for his meal...

UPDATE****
After 2 weeks of feeding, cleaning and sustaining numerous bird-bites this little fella was raring to return to the wild. He twice escaped his little box area and managed to avoid the verry cunning Rat Terrier (Petey) by hiding under a sideboard. This bird is one lucky frigging bird...
I brought him outside (holding him) while he bit the crap out of my hand~~~ I kept thinking how strong he was! I set him in the bushes and he was gone in seconds! Gone as in flew away! And if he is as lucky in the first part of his little life as he in in this next chapter then I have no worries about him. I am sure he has learned to NOT trust small children~~~ LOL