{"id":386318,"date":"2025-08-31T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386318\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:52:11","slug":"baby-hawks-terrified-of-butterfly-in-comical-nest-cam-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386318\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby hawks terrified of butterfly in comical nest-cam video"},"content":{"rendered":"

As adults, hawks are prolific predators with a fearless intensity etched into their faces.<\/p>\n

As babies, the fluffy raptors are comically cute and, apparently, afraid of even the tiniest of uninvited guests.<\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/p>\n

Baby hawks react to butterfly at nesting site.<\/p>\n

The accompanying footage, shared Friday by National Park News, shows several baby hawks reacting to the appearance of a butterfly at their nesting site.<\/p>\n

ALSO: Yellowstone tourist has tough choice during extremely close bison encounter<\/a><\/p>\n

The caption: \u201cThese young hawks are still too young to realize their place in the food chain is at the top!\u201d<\/p>\n

The clip, posted below, is sure to put a smile on your face.\u00a0(Best watched with sound turned on.)<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on For The Win: Uninvited guest terrifies baby hawks, and it\u2019s downright adorable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As adults, hawks are prolific predators with a fearless intensity etched into their faces. As babies, the fluffy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[133925,133927,70,16,133926,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-386318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-hawks","9":"tag-national-park-news","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-uninvited-guests","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115121117299880140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}