Key Porter launched Sean Dixon’s new YA book The Feathered Cloak at Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park with a reading and the special guest appearance of Qetesh, the falcon. (Photos by Kelly Ward/Key Porter Books)

Dixon reads from The Feathered Cloak.

Mark Nash from the Canadian Peregrine Foundation introduces Qetesh, the falcon.

Author and banjo enthusiast Sean Dixon explores the art of falcon-whispering.

Qetesh offers a sharp-eyed opinion.