California condor survey field notes, v1476
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Continued 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,