{"id":617035,"date":"2026-06-02T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617035\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:23:08","slug":"bald-eagle-found-after-going-missing-from-centre-in-bedfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617035\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald eagle found after going missing from centre in Bedfordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;shy&#8221; eagle that went missing from a birds of prey centre after being mobbed by crows has been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aspen, an American bald eagle, was chased from Herrings Green Activity Farm in Wilstead, near Bedford, just before a flying display on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A BBC Three Counties Radio listener named Dot told presenter Andy Collins she thought she had seen the eagle after &#8220;a really big bird flew across my car&#8221;. He was found near Cardington, south of Bedford, on Tuesday after another sighting by a member of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Hesford, from the centre, said he &#8220;literally saw me and the second I put my glove up he was right there&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;shy&#8221; eagle that went missing from a birds of prey centre after being mobbed by crows has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-617035","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\/617035","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=617035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}