{"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":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"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":["post-35234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-bird","tag-bird-watching-spots","tag-birds","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news-social","tag-butterflies","tag-content","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-evergreen","tag-evergreen-content","tag-gardens","tag-hawks","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-local-affiliate-travel","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-online","tag-online-video","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-parks","tag-raptors","tag-regional","tag-regional-parks-u0026-gardens","tag-science","tag-smg","tag-smg-breaking-wire","tag-social","tag-spots","tag-travel","tag-u0026","tag-video","tag-watching","tag-wildlife","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}]}}