{"id":490089,"date":"2026-02-25T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:37:08","slug":"today-in-hawks-around-town-bald-eagle-takes-down-rat-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490089\/","title":{"rendered":"Today* in Hawks*** around Town \u2013 Bald Eagle Takes Down Rat! Beautiful"},"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 February 25, 2026 at 8:55AM\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-339349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image0-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Steve for sending this awesomeness from Rob and Margo: \u201cBald Eagle Grabs Rat\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-339350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image1-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBald Eagle in my alley! It\u2019s fucking huge.<\/p>\n<p>Swooped down &amp; grabbed a rat!<\/p>\n<p>15th street.<\/p>\n<p>Sight was in the alley between Harvard &amp; Irving.\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=\"0b7b796265686e646d7b6e7f7c64797f634b6c666a626725686466\" 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 February 25, 2026 at 8:55AM Thanks to Steve for sending this awesomeness from Rob and Margo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-490089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490089","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=490089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}