{"id":35234,"date":"2025-08-31T20:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35234\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:53:06","slug":"uninvited-guest-terrifies-baby-hawks-and-its-downright-adorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35234\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninvited guest terrifies baby hawks, and it\u2019s downright adorable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As adults, hawks are prolific predators with a fearless intensity etched into their faces.<\/p>\n<p>As babies, the fluffy raptors are comically cute and, apparently, afraid of even the tiniest of uninvited guests.<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying footage, shared Friday by National Park News, shows several baby hawks reacting to the appearance of a butterfly at their nesting site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/08\/11\/yellowstone-tourist-tough-choice-close-bison-encounter-video\/85616721007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALSO: Yellowstone tourist has tough choice during extremely close bison encounter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The caption: \u201cThese young hawks are still too young to realize their place in the food chain is at the top!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clip, posted below, is sure to put a smile on your face.\u00a0(Best watched with sound turned on.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As adults, hawks are prolific predators with a fearless intensity etched into their faces. As babies, the fluffy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[840,365,27375,27380,8458,22364,22371,27373,841,18,117,4152,14471,27379,27372,19,17,526,5718,21835,1221,5,7219,12177,713,1234,370,27374,5600,27382,133,22363,27381,5570,27377,4319,716,836,27376,461,27378],"class_list":{"0":"post-35234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-bird","11":"tag-bird-watching-spots","12":"tag-birds","13":"tag-breaking","14":"tag-breaking-news-social","15":"tag-butterflies","16":"tag-content","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-evergreen","20":"tag-evergreen-content","21":"tag-gardens","22":"tag-hawks","23":"tag-ie","24":"tag-ireland","25":"tag-local","26":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","27":"tag-local-affiliate-travel","28":"tag-neutral","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-online","31":"tag-online-video","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-neutral","34":"tag-parks","35":"tag-raptors","36":"tag-regional","37":"tag-regional-parks-u0026-gardens","38":"tag-science","39":"tag-smg","40":"tag-smg-breaking-wire","41":"tag-social","42":"tag-spots","43":"tag-travel","44":"tag-u0026","45":"tag-video","46":"tag-watching","47":"tag-wildlife","48":"tag-wire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}