Monadnock Falconry brings Harris’s hawk show to Laconia library
A free July 9 Harris’s hawk demo at Leavitt Park Clubhouse will let Laconia families watch a bird on the wing and hear how falconers work with raptors.
Monadnock Falconry will bring a Harris’s hawk program to the Leavitt Park Clubhouse at 334 Elm Street in Laconia on Thursday, July 9, giving local families a close look at a bird that usually lives at the center of a far less public sport. The free event is open to all ages and is built around meeting the hawk, seeing it on the wing, and hearing directly from staff about the species and its relationship with human handlers.
The Laconia library calendar posted the program on July 2, and the format is designed to be approachable for newcomers who may know falconry only as a hunting tradition. Monadnock Falconry says its public appearances are free and open to the public, and its standard hawk-walk style programs can run 60 or 90 minutes. In the longer version, attendees get an introduction to all of the organization’s birds of prey, then a walk through The Grouse Woods with a pair of hunting Harris’s Hawks.
That mix of live flight and direct questions is the real draw for beginners. Instead of asking readers to picture falconry in the abstract, the demonstration puts the bird in front of them, where behavior, handling, and training can be observed in real time. Monadnock Falconry also says some experiences are capped at 12 participants, a limit that keeps the audience small enough for hands-on time with the bird and a closer look at how a falconer manages a raptor in a public setting.
The Laconia stop is part of a broader outreach pattern. Monadnock Falconry lists a July 16 appearance at Aaron Cutler Memorial Library in Litchfield, and the same Harris’s hawk, on-the-wing, question-and-answer format has surfaced in earlier community listings in Laconia and Goffstown. The organization is based in Temple, New Hampshire, at 140 Webster Highway, and it uses those public appearances to make falconry legible to people who have never stood this close to a trained raptor.
For anyone curious about what falconry looks like beyond the field, the July 9 program will offer exactly that: a live Harris’s hawk, a small audience, and a chance to watch the handler-bird partnership up close.
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