California Condor Eben Macmillan 3 July 1963 McCarty asleep in his livingroom, and upon being awakened by his Grandson, gave me much information on Condor. First he thought that if I really wanted to see Condor I should go to Cummings Valley for in years gone by he always saw one or two Condor circling above Cummings Valley. Mrs. McCarty was born and grew up in Cummings Valley and when he used to go counting her, from Caliente where he still lives, he always saw Condor in Cummings Valley. Mr. McCarthy said that about 2 years ago, a Cow died in a farming field Northeast of his house. Condor came to feed on this dead Cow in such numbers that they bent the limbs of the Oak tree that grew near where the dead Cow was and in which tree the Condor gathered before and after feeding on this carcass. He mentioned that several of the Condor that fed on this Carcass had some difficulty getting into the air and that only by running air-borne and flapping, the wings, a great distance, did they become airborne. Mr. McCarthy thought Condor returned to his area about the first Week in June each year, for he drives a school-bus from Caliente to Bakersfield and it is usually during the last week of school that in former years he would commence to see Condor. School ends about the end of the first full week in June. He also said he thinks the Condor come past his place heading Southward, flying high and seem to come from the Northeast. He therefore thought them to be coming from the Tehachapi area. Mr. McCarthy had never heard of a Condor being shot or of anyone finding one dead. He said that in former years Ground squirrels were very plentiful throughout the Sierra Nevada foothills and when Thallium and D80 Poisons were first used they killed many thousands of Squirrels in the early Summer months and that Condor always came to feed on these dead Squirrels each year. He thought that many people first started seeing Condor when this Squirrel Poisoning was first promoted on a wide scale in his area