RaptorQuest Presentation by Author Scott Harris

On Friday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m., Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society will welcome keynote speaker Scott Harris via Zoom, who will present remotely on his book RaptorQuest: Chasing America’s Raptors. Harris spent 17 months chasing 53 Raptors across 34 states.

RaptorQuest is about his adventures, misadventures, successes, and failures. Harris details days thirty-six degrees below zero to ones over one hundred degrees, spotting a bird just in time or dealing with frustrating misses. His book is about the birds—of course—but it’s also about the people he met, the things he learned, and why he’s already working on his next adventure.

This program will be a part of our annual Charter Dinner, but anyone may attend the program free of charge. To attend the program only, please arrive at the Quality Inn in Oneonta at 7:15 p.m. or join on Zoom. To register for the program only via Zoom, please visit this link: https://tinyurl.com/463zapae .

For those interested in attending the Charter Dinner, please visit this page for more information and to purchase tickets: https://doas.us/2024-charter-dinner .

A Charter raffle is also available with a “flock” of bird-themed prizes. Tickets for the Charter raffle are available online and at the Open House at the DOAS Sanctuary on October 5. Charter raffle winners do not need to be present at the dinner. Learn more about our Charter raffle here: https://doas.us/2024-dinner-raffle/ .

About the Presenter 

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).