The Hawk

This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the peregrines breeding on the main tower of Lincoln Cathedral.

‘Accipiter the Hawk is a bird which is even better equipped in its spirit the in its talons, for it shows very great courage in a very small body. For it is an avid bird at seizing others, whence it is called Accipiter, ie Raptor – the ravisher, the thief.’

(Words from T.H. White’s translation of a Latin prose bestiary, copied in the twelfth century by Jacobus Thomas Herison at Revesby Abbey in Lincolnshire).