California Condor field notes, v1401
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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