{"id":416223,"date":"2026-10-02T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416223\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:14:09","slug":"deputy-in-tampa-rescues-hawk-trapped-under-pool-cover-bodycam-video-shows-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416223\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy in Tampa rescues hawk trapped under pool cover, bodycam video shows &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A deputy in Tampa helped out a hawk that got itself stuck under a pool cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bird managed to get trapped inside a screened-in pool on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Body camera video shows the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s deputy approaching the hawk with a net and carefully catching it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After walking out of the pool, the deputy tried to release the hawk into the nearby woods but the bird seemed too frightened to move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over some time, the deputy eventually managed to coax the hawk out before it took to the skies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deputy also managed to snap a quick picture of the hawk before it left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bird was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A deputy in Tampa helped out a hawk that got itself stuck under a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-416223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}