Cutest hawk chicks scared of butterfly!

[Retro]

Never seen this one before. A butterfly lands in front of the nest of three hawk chicks and scares them silly!

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[Mars]

actually, I found this little clip quite fascinating. The butterfly must have smelled something, so he fluttered down to check, unfurling his tiny white proboscis; the chicks saw it, you can see it, as a little white thingy protruding downward as the butterfly investigates....nope, no roses here, so off he flies.
Those chicks are so young, so inexperienced, still very much in nappies; anything that didn't look like mum would scare them; even a butterfly.
Sweet little raptors-in-waiting

 

[Tiffany]

That hawks reaction to that butterfly was almost human.