{"id":281945,"date":"2025-11-09T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/281945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:50:09","slug":"and-in-spectacular-landings-bald-eagle-with-free-dc-backdrop-also-an-important-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/281945\/","title":{"rendered":"And in Spectacular Landings \u2013 Bald Eagle with Free DC backdrop!! (also an important PSA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/category\/wildlife\/\" class=\"block px-4 no-underline mb-4 text-sans text-md font-sans font-semibold text-posts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wildlife<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tPublished November 9, 2025 at 10:13AM\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/popville-eagle-free-dc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"851\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to s vp for sending this magnificent photo from Columbia Heights Saturday morning:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the most gorgeous bald eagle early this morning. The reason it caught my attention is because i heard some very loud crows cawing and when I opened my window i I saw that the eagle had gotten one of the (many) dead alley rats.<\/p>\n<p>While it might seem like a small thing, this is a reminder of how toxic rodenticides don\u2019t just kill rodents \u2014 they ripple through the entire food chain.<\/p>\n<p>When birds of prey, foxes, coyotes, cats, or dogs eat poisoned rodents, the toxins accumulate in their systems. Many die slow, painful deaths, and the poisons can even contaminate soil and water. Just a PSA that poison doesn\u2019t stop with rats \u2014 it harms the very wildlife that keeps our ecosystems healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you spot a hawk, any interesting wildlife or celebrity skateboarder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/2021\/11\/tony-hawk-shaw\/\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tony Hawk<\/a>, and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"b9c9cbd0d7dadcd6dfc9dccdced6cbcdd1f9ded4d8d0d597dad6d4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/2009\/04\/ben-and-sylvia-gardner-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"wildlife Published November 9, 2025 at 10:13AM Thanks to s vp for sending this magnificent photo from Columbia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-281945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}