DOS February Meeting: “RaptorQuest, Chasing’s America’s Raptors” by Scott Harris
February 19, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST
Zoom only.
My book RaptorQuest, Chasing’s America’s Raptors is about my journey to find all 53 of the Raptors that call the Lower 48 states home. I found all 53, along with a Bat Falcon, a Steller’s Sea Eagle and an Eurasian Eagle Owl. It is filled with stories about each bird and dozens of color photographs.
I took 17 months and more than 100,000 miles of travel across 34 states. In my presentation, I share my adventures, misadventures, successes and failures. From -36 degree days, to one over 100, to getting stuck in the mud, to barely missing a bird, to just arriving in time. It’s about the Raptors, of course, but it’s also about the people I met, the things I learned and why I’m already in the middle of my next big birding adventure.
Scott Harris and his wife Randi retired to South Carolina in March of 2020—something Scott will tell you was one of the best decisions they have made in their forty-four years of marriage. It was also when he first started birding—a hobby he never imagined himself participating in, but now can’t imagine living without.
They sold their long-time home and business, Mustang Marketing, a marketing/branding company they had owned for thirty-five years. They are blessed that both their children and their grandson are also in South Carolina.
While in California, Scott had a syndicated newspaper column and two weekly radio shows. He and his son Justin also hosted a Los Angeles Dodgers weekly live radio show. Scott sat on dozens of boards over the years, including Boys & Girls Club, United Way, The Sheriff’s Foundation, Pepperdine University, Moorpark College, and California State University Northridge.
In the month before leaving Ventura County, Scott was honored as Man of the Year, with his company having won Business of the Year two years previously. His interests and hobbies include the largest collection of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in the world, playing harmonica in a blues band for five years, and writing (he has written almost fifty books in the past six years—though RaptorQuest is his first entrée into the world of birding).
The meeting is held online via Zoom software. Zoom only.
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We look forward to ‘seeing’ you soon!