{"id":833485,"date":"2026-05-31T01:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/833485\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T01:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:05:14","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-attacks-bald-eagle-over-food-in-womans-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/833485\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed hawk attacks bald eagle over food in woman&#8217;s yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/red-taile-dhawk-bald-eagle-fight.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">A viewer in Erie caught this image of a red-tailed hawk attacking a bald eagle that she saw happen in her backyard on May 26.(Photo courtesy of Lesa Russeau) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>ERIE, MI (FOX 2)<\/strong> &#8211; A woman in Erie caught these two birds of prey fighting over their food, and she did so completely by accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The woman was in her car when she saw the eagle with its dinner, a chipmunk or other small animal. She said she stopped to take a photo in front of her house, and never even saw the red-tailed hawk until looking at the photos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">She took a photo of the eagle in the road, and then he flew into her yard, where she went to take another photo. That&#8217;s when the hawk attacked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;I thought I was only getting a picture of him out of my car window,&#8221; Lesa Russeau said. &#8220;Imagine my surprise when I looked at the photo. I never even saw the hawk!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/monroe-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monroe County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/science\/wild-nature\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Nature<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A viewer in Erie caught this image of a red-tailed hawk attacking a bald eagle that she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":833486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[1450,156074,50,159,67,132,68,1581,837],"class_list":["post-833485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-mi","tag-monroe-county","tag-news","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wild-nature","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}