What would you do if you found a wild baby animal that needed help?

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Would you help it the best you could? Would you simply leave it wherever you found it? Or would you do something else? Yesterday, while my kids and I were outside in our yard my 6 year old son saw something on the ground and asked me what it was. At first I didn't know, until I saw a beak and feathers, then I knew it was a baby bird! It happened to fall out of it's nest. Darn little bird was very active. LOL I called me husband while he was at work and let him know about it as I was thinking my husband just might be able to reach the nest to put the baby bird back. So while my kids and I waited for their father to come home, my youngest son and I looked for bugs to feed the bird. I was able to feed the little bird some bugs (sorry little ladybugs!), about 10 in one sitting (it took about 45 minutes in all). I did feel the craw to make sure I wasn't overfeeding him. About 2 hours later I fed him about 7 more ladybugs. I also gave the baby bird little bits of water in between feeding him. Shortly after my husband arrived home. We went outside so I could show him where the nest was. He grabbed a ladder and up he went to see it he could find the nest (the nest is hidden in a palm tree). Once he found it he got the baby bird and put him back up it it's nest. I checked last night and today to see if the baby bird fell out again, but I guess it's still in the tree as I could not find it (or his little siblings) on the ground. By the way, we have a lot of trees in our yard. And because of this we have a ton of wild birds (blue jays, robins, little black birds, sparrows, hummingbirds, and so forth) that visit or make homes in these trees. Every spring at least one little baby bird falls out of it's nest. Sometimes it doesn't make the fall and other times we weren't able to put it back in the nest as it was too high. The ones that made it we would take in and tend to them best we could. Though sadly those that we took in died. :( So it makes me feel good that my husband and I were able to help this little bird out. :) What would you do if you found a wild baby animal that needed help?