Annual dinner 2025:Scott Harris: Raptor aficionado and wildlife photographer
Scott Harris started birding in 2020, when he and and his wife Randi retired to South Carolina. It's an activity he never imagined himself participating in, but now can't imagine living without.
Scott, a prolific author, will be discussing his first entree into the world of birds and birding. That book, RaptorQuest: Chasing America’s Raptors, is the topic of his presentation.
Scott spent 17 months, chasing 53 raptors across 34 states — his version of a Raptor Big Year. RaptorQuest is about his adventures,
misadventures, successes and failures. From -36 degree days, to ones over 100 degrees, to just getting on the bird just in time, to the frustrations of missing one by minutes. It’s 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.
More about Scott:
Scott will tell you that moving to South Carolina was one of the best decisions he and Randi have made in their 45 years of marriage.
They sold their long-time home and business, Mustang Marketing, a marketing/branding company they had owned for 35 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 world's largest collection of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, playing harmonica in a blues band and writing - he has authored more than fifty books in the past seven years.
Scott, a prolific author, will be discussing his first entree into the world of birds and birding. That book, RaptorQuest: Chasing America’s Raptors, is the topic of his presentation.
Scott spent 17 months, chasing 53 raptors across 34 states — his version of a Raptor Big Year. RaptorQuest is about his adventures,
misadventures, successes and failures. From -36 degree days, to ones over 100 degrees, to just getting on the bird just in time, to the frustrations of missing one by minutes. It’s 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.
More about Scott:
Scott will tell you that moving to South Carolina was one of the best decisions he and Randi have made in their 45 years of marriage.
They sold their long-time home and business, Mustang Marketing, a marketing/branding company they had owned for 35 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 world's largest collection of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, playing harmonica in a blues band and writing - he has authored more than fifty books in the past seven years.
