California Condor Eben Mcmillan 18 June 1963 I left the John Tait home in Santa Rosa Valley Northeast of Camarillo at 10:00 a.m. Heavy Smog and haze made observation difficult as I stopped at the Simi Valley area where Bruce Strathern has his hunting club. Strathern was not about so I drove to dead pit of Newhall land and Cattle Company at Castaic Junction on highway 99. NO carrion birds were about the dead-pit nor had any new animal bodies been dumped in the pit since you and I were here last. As I left the dead-pit Two Turkey Buzzards came in above the area of the pit, but did not drop down to feed - I was at the pit from 11:45 to 12:30 p.m. Passing up highway 99 to Hungry Valley I drove in and to ranch of Amidio Del Nero who knows Condor and will keep watch and record any of these birds that pass his ranch that lies in foothills of Frazier mountain on the east side of this mountain mass. Mr. Del Nero felt that Condor would be shot by most deer hunters if they came close enough and the hunters shot was accurate. He thought Young hunters were poorer sports than are the older hunters. He also said that the road passing near his home carries as many cars the first weekend of deer season as does the main 99 highway. He used this similarity to impress that great numbers of hunters came into the Alamo Mountain and Frazier mountain areas to hunt. I then drove to home of Mrs. C.B. Maxey who lives in an arm of Hungry Valley to the north of Mr. Del Nero's place. Mrs. Maxey is 94 years old and lives by herself. She has lived in Hungry Valley at times, since 1910 and living here continually since 1917 - Mrs. Maxey has been interested in birds all her life and has many bird books in her living room. She thought Condor, that used to be Commonly observed about her home when she first came -