Molly & McGee: A Photo Gallery of the World's Most Famous Barn Owls

by Eric Blehm (Foreword), Carlos Royal (Illustrator)

When a wild barn owl and her mate decided to nest in a suburban neighborhood, the remarkable tale of Molly and McGee began. The owls' home, a wooden box with a camera inside, put up by Carlos and Donna Royal in their Southern California backyard, became the setting for a real-life story of love, danger, mystery - and ultimately, the triumph of a family.... Relying on his ears, intuition, timing, and a bit of luck, Carlos learned to anticipate the owls' flights in the pitch black night, brilliantly documenting - with more than ten thousand stunning photographs - the life and times of this famous barn owl family. Carlos chose his favorite hundred images for this book, a photographic gallery illuminating the dark world of these remarkable winged predators, which have evolved and survived since prehistoric times.

121 pages, Hardcover

Published January 5, 2011

About the author

Eric Blehm is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For. His book The Last Season won the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award and was named by Outside magazine as one of the “greatest adventure biographies ever written.”