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:-( Och, that's a terrible shame. Blue tit fledglings normally all leave the nest at once. Often one's not strong enough and gets left behind.
I've fed an orphan blue tit before - a straggler. It's bloody hard work. They just eat and eat. Luckily one of the parents came back later the same day. I popped the fledgling in a box in the shed and left the door open. The parent took over feeding duties and it all turned out fine in the end.
There's a nest box full of them outside my bedroom window just now. When the female was sitting on her eggs, the male would sit outside the box on the telephone line and sing loudly - starting at 6 in the morning! Some days I've staggered out of bed and opened the window just so he'd move away and shut up. That's a nest box tip: don't put it outside your bedroom. :-)