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Gymnogyps californianus
July 13, 1946 Fountain Springs, Calif.
they were stumbing & about 2 days old, quite juicy, &
2 partially eaten. One was completely in open, one in
burrow entrance but hidden by rocks, & one half in
burrow (head eaten). I visited site where I saw the eagle &
condor this morning & found pieces of fur, tail, & skull of a
squirrel, & what was apparently stomach & esophagus (messed
up, couldn't be seen). Laid a ripe cottatail & squirrel out
in that vicinity for bait. Found the squirrel in burrow
mouth, swollen but meaty. There was fresh poisoned grain outside the most squirrel burrows - this
was whole oats, slightly slightly flattened, & yellow
in color. At Fountain Springs fire suppression camp
I talked with an Indian who remembered my former
visit (about 1940). He said 2-3 years ago a couple
of birds flew over which might have been condors. He
thought they lived in the higher country. At Fountain
Springs I talked with Glen Anderson, in charge of local poisoning. Most poisoning was being done now on
both sides of the Hot Springs & White River roads,
working from Fountain Springs. He had heard that
one side on a ranch had seen a condor this year,
but he had seen more than he had heard of them. He
said Morisey (sp.) Ranch had just completed poisoning
& that many buzzards were there (S. side of Hot Springs road, heard ranch from Fountain Springs). I