{"id":404627,"date":"2026-02-02T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404627\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:16:09","slug":"two-white-tailed-eagles-spotted-on-dorset-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404627\/","title":{"rendered":"Two white tailed eagles spotted on Dorset coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Nick and his wife Dianna Williams were out on a walk when they spotted the eagles above them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pair, from Ringwood, were walking along Hengistbury Head, near the coastguard station, when the birds flew over.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nick described them as &#8216;such things of beauty&#8217;, also commenting on their wingspan of around 2.5 metres.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;White tailed eagles have recently been re-introduced to the south coast after a gap of 250 years .\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;My only previous sighting of one of these magnificent birds was in Poole harbour whilst on a Birds of Poole harbour boat trip- I would definitely recommend these boat trips.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt was the first time we have seen a white tailed eagle, let alone 2, at Hengistbury Head . We were by the coastguard station when we spotted them heading towards us from the Poole direction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The people manning the coastguard station were also really excited, as it was the first time they had seen these magnificent birds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick and his wife Dianna Williams were out on a walk when they spotted the eagles above them.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-404627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}