{"id":527979,"date":"2026-03-17T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/527979\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:42:11","slug":"awesome-hawk-around-town-popville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/527979\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAwesome Hawk Around Town\u201d &#8211; PoPville"},"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 March 16, 2026 at 3:15PM\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-340878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rat-hawk-popville.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"800\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Brendan for sending this great shot:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was outside grilling Saturday evening, when I heard commotion in the alley beside our house and the noise of flapping wings. I saw this hawk land in our tree maybe 10 feet away from me, but that wasn\u2019t all. In its talons, it was carrying a rat that it clearly just nabbed out of the alley (my neighbors\u2019 trash cans are beat up and the rats feast in them).\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=\"f383819a9d90969c95839687849c81879bb3949e929a9fdd909c9e\" 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 March 16, 2026 at 3:15PM Thanks to Brendan for sending this great shot: \u201cI was outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-527979","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\/527979","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=527979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}