Book Signing & Live Owl Demonstration with Author Mark Manske

BOOK SIGNING & LIVE OWL DEMONSTRATION
WITH AUTHOR MARK MANSKE
Local North Country Author Mark Manske and his owl will be at The TAUNY Center in Canton for a book signing of his latest release "The Goshawk Gabboon" on Thursday, 2/15 from 3-5 p.m. The program is free to attend with books available at the TAUNY Folkstore for purchase. The event is designed for middle aged children (4th - 8th grade) and is open to the public.

About Mark Manske:

Manske would catch and raise pigeons from his neighbor's barn as a child. From 1984 through 1986, he studied under Dr. Frances Hamerstrom, the first woman in North America to fly a golden eagle. The author became a falconer in 2003 and, by 2009, became a master falconer. He has flown several Red Tailed Hawks, American Kestrels, Harris Hawks, and a Northern Goshawk. When a person comments that he has a fascinating hobby, he corrects them and tells them that it is not a hobby but a lifestyle.
 

He has helped secure skunks, squirrels, woodchucks, red fox, Red-Tailed Hawks, American Kestrels, Great Horned Owls, Barred Owls, Broad-Winged Hawks, Merlins, Bald Eagles, Northern Saw-Whet Owls, Eastern Screech Owls, several species of woodpeckers and songbirds, common loons, Great Blue Herons, American Bitterns, Raccoons, and Green Herons.