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californi'a Condor
Eben Mcmillan
28 march
George Newsom, of Priest Valley - Online between
Monterey and San Joaquin Counties, called at 1:00 p.m.
today in reference to engaging me to show my film
at the Priest Valley Farm Bureau in June. In the
course of the conversation he told me of
seeing a Condor, in a field, in Priest Valley,
about two days ago, that acted queerly. Newsom
said the Condor was across a ditch from
him, but that he drove up quite close to
it in a Jeep and that the Condor stood
opening its mouth as a turkey will on a hot
day and paid little attention to be or
the Jeep. Newsom said he left the area
with the Condor still sitting in the place
where he first saw it and has not been
back since. I re-phoned
Newsom at
9:30 p.m. this evening, encouraging
him to keep watch for this bird
and should he see it again, dead or alive,
to call me collect, immediately.
Mr. Newsom spoke of the Condors
Yellow head. This gives some evidence
that this was a Condor, along with the
fact that he mentioned having seen the
Condor that used to be on the Cholame
flats when he worked there some 20 odd
years ago. He mentioned having seen three
Condor on a Cattle Trough on the side of
the Cholame Valley next to Gene Rambo's
Property - Condor were about this area
in those years.