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Condor
after talking for ten minutes, at 10:40 A.M.
we saw another Condor circling high above
the North side of Agua Blanca Canyon at a
distance of about 3/4 of a mile from where we
stood. We watched this bird circle for a few
minutes and then slant off to the Northwest,
following the North Slope of the Agua Blanca
drainage, until it became difficult to follow
against the dark brush in the background.
We then returned to the pickups where Dan and
I ate our lunches and Jack Gaines drove off
in his pickup to look after some road grading
that was going on in the Cow Springs area.
After lunch Dan and I drove to the Bucksnort
Camp, leaving out pickup there we proceeded on
foot up the Canyon behind the Camp Cabin of Mr.
Harter and out to the Southeast on the ridge between
the Sespe drainage and the Agua Blanca, following
the trail left by the bulldozer that worked out a
deep road up this ridge so that dead deer
could be hauled up on the ridge-top, to attract Condor, so
that members of the Cooper Ornithological Society annual
meeting members could see the birds. We followed this
trail a short distance when we looked back to see
Condor — Two Condor sailing up from the South and
circling above the knoll where we had been in the
morning. Both these Condor were adults—one showing several
missing wing feathers while the other bird had a near
perfect plumage. After circling to the Northwest of us
for about 5 minutes these Two Condor flew to the South
down the Canyon and were soon out of sight in the
hazy fog. Going on up the trail we passed the
opening where the deer Carcasses had been dumped,