{"id":569783,"date":"2026-04-07T12:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:51:17","slug":"iris-the-osprey-returns-home-hellgate-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569783\/","title":{"rendered":"Iris the osprey returns home Hellgate nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MISSOULA \u2014 Missoula&#8217;s iconic osprey is back just in time to celebrate 406 day!<\/p>\n<p>Iris is home safely in her nest near the Clark Fork River.<\/p>\n<p>She even caught some fish and enjoyed them on her second perch.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775566277_53_.jpeg\" alt=\"Iris 1\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emily Brown\/MTN News<\/p>\n<p>        Iris with her catch<\/p>\n<p>Iris is one of the oldest ospreys in the world at around 30. <\/p>\n<p>Each year, she travels many miles to return to her home in Missoula.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in keeping up with Iris&#8217;s activities, visit our website to view the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/cams\/hellgate-ospreys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live camera at the Hellgate Nest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MISSOULA \u2014 Missoula&#8217;s iconic osprey is back just in time to celebrate 406 day! Iris is home safely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[251353,1151,7223,251354,142517,251355,20606,3326,9689,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-569783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-406-day","9":"tag-bird","10":"tag-birds","11":"tag-hellgate","12":"tag-iris","13":"tag-iris-the-osprey","14":"tag-missoula","15":"tag-montana","16":"tag-osprey","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569783","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=569783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}