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Gymnogyps californianus
June 19, 1946 Hopper Canyon, Calif.
condors, circling & rising. They rose to 800' above
the Rim, then scattered - at least 3 of these headed east
& were over White Cliffs at 10:44. At 10:50 I was
back at the road. Breeze light or absent. Then I
drove to head of the tractor trail & hiked down to the
creveldelawn Big Cove (arrived 12:00). Then on to Cada
Falls (arrived 12:30). At 12:30 I saw 1 land in a green Po.
near Flat Po. The falls was running a steady clear
stream. This falls area has 3 main levels,
each having a flat rock area & a good pool. The
top pool is about 5x4'; shallow at the edges, but
perhaps 20" at deepest (large rocks make bottom
irregular). Where I saw 4-5 condors yesterday the wat.
er was only 1-2" deep, then trickled through the more
down the rock slope. About 20' below this was
the center level having two pothole pools in a flat-
tish space about 50' 30' long & 20' wide. The lower
of these pools, about 1 ft. from cliff edge, so was where
I saw condors brother drive yesterday. This pool
was about 5x12' & perhaps 2' deep at most. The
end where the condors bathed was about 6" deep with
a sandy bottom. About 20' lower was the lowest
low pool, a nearly circular one about 10' in diam.
set on a flat place about 15' wide & 60' long. This
flat was where I saw several condors running yea-
terday. Some apparently flew about 100' S of this