{"id":932100,"date":"2026-05-02T03:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/932100\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:54:18","slug":"preschool-staff-hear-rustling-in-column-and-uncover-a-beautiful-bird-stuck-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/932100\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschool Staff Hear ‘Rustling’ In Column And Uncover A Beautiful Bird Stuck Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, employees at the Goddard School of Woodlake, a preschool in Midlothian, Virginia, were surprised to notice an odd sound echoing from within a structural column at the front of the building.<\/p>\n

\"preschoolChesterfield County Animal Services<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]hey had been hearing an animal rustling around,\u201d Chesterfield County Animal Services<\/a> manager Lt. Carrie Jones told The Dodo.<\/p>\n

Employees suspected the animal was a sparrow they\u2019d seen nesting above the column in the days prior. In need of expert help, they contacted Chesterfield County Animal Services, who sent officers Messer and Powell to the scene.<\/p>\n

\"hawkChesterfield County Animal Services<\/p>\n

Officers used a camera to peek inside the column. Peering down the 10-foot-long tube, they were stunned to see someone much larger than they expected. It turns out, the trapped animal wasn\u2019t a sparrow \u2014 he was a juvenile Cooper\u2019s hawk.<\/p>\n

The rescuers knew they had to act quickly. If they waited too long, the hawk might injure himself while trying to escape. Officers bent a fishing net into a J shape, tied it to a rope and lowered it into the column.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hawk eventually hopped into the net, and the officers were able to pull the net up and out of the column,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

\"personChesterfield County Animal Services<\/p>\n

Officers examined the hawk and were pleased to find he hadn\u2019t sustained any injuries. They took him to the woods nearby and released him back into the wild.<\/p>\n

\"animalChesterfield County Animal Services<\/p>\n

Watching the bird fly away, the rescuers couldn\u2019t help but feel grateful.<\/p>\n

\u201cReleasing the hawk back into the wild was a happy and rewarding experience,\u201d Officer Powell told The Dodo. \u201cThis was not the first animal Officer Messer and I have had stuck in a very similar situation, and I\u2019m very glad we were able to have another successful save.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Rescuer<\/a>Rescuer Stops To Help A Hawk On The Ground \u2014 And Finds Something Around His Neck\u201cThe hawk wasn\u2019t moving at all \u2026\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, employees at the Goddard School of Woodlake, a preschool in Midlothian, Virginia, were surprised to notice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[1718,1716,728,260736,26087,70,1715,1713,16,15,1717],"class_list":["post-932100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-encounters","tag-daily-dodo","tag-environment","tag-hawk","tag-maeve-dunigan","tag-science","tag-standard","tag-the-dodo","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116502965190107325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932100","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=932100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}