The peregrine is a very large, powerful falcon that visits our area occasionally in the winter, hunting over fields and woodlands in search of prey, such as wood pigeon and other birds, which it usually kills on the wing, hitting them with force as it dives at speed.
Unusually there was one of these supreme aerial predators chasing doves and starling around the steeple of St Botolph's last week - without success it would seem, but then I was driving, so didn't look too hard!
And if you are looking for birds of prey around Helpston at the moment don't miss the buzzard that so often sits in the tree on the west of Maxey Road, about 150 yards north of the crossing - a regular feature of our landscape! Not so long ago these were very rare visitors to Helpston indeed, now they are probably as common as kestrels.
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