Families enjoy falconry fun, archery, axe throwing, arts and crafts and archaeology at Castle Park Heritage Day
Falcons soared and axes and arrows flew through the air at Castle Park Heritage Day in Bishop's Stortford on Saturday (April 15).
Families flocked to enjoy displays by birds of prey including a kestrel, a Harris hawk, a tawny owl, a barn owl, an Aplomado falcon and a peregrine X gyr X Barbary falcon hybrid.
As well as putting the birds through their paces during two flying sessions, the team from Coda Falconry answered questions about their feathered friends.
The free event from 10am to 3pm, organised by volunteers from the Friends of Castle Park, who led arts and crafts activities, also included children’s archaeology activities led by experts from Museum of London Archaeology, tours of the Waytemore Castle mound, medieval archery and axe throwing with On Targett Events.
Bishop’s Stortford Natural History Society and the town’s River Group also joined the event, which aimed to introduce the park and its history to the community.
The open space is currently being revamped by East Herts district and Bishop's Stortford town councils in a £3.5m project supported by a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant.
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