Visitors to Haworth's Bronte Parsonage Museum were charmed by a falconry demonstration.
As the falcons of Thorp Perrow took to the skies, museum visitors were transported back to life in 1841 when Wuthering Heights author Emily Bronte rescued an injured merlin hawk fledgling which she found abandoned on the Haworth moors. The writer reared the bird of prey, painted a watercolour of him and christened him Nero.
Displays took place on Saturday afternoon in fields behind the museum.
Pictured is Thorp Perrow's Jan Graham with Lyra the Peregrine Falcon. About a dozen falcons were on display from the centre in Bedale.
Alan Bentley, museum manager said: "The birds have been flying over people's heads and there has been a lot of audience participation."
"Between demonstrations, the birds are on display and children have been handling them and finding out about them. It has been very popular."
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