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California Condor
Eben McMillan
4 July 1963
and his wife are very interested and would like to know more
about all birds. Mr. Seydon will keep his eye open for Condor Signs
and also report to us anything he hears relating to Condor in that
AREA
He also told me that Helen King, an elderly lady who has been
on Oak Flat Lookout for at least 10 summers, told him of seeing
50 plus Condor in that area in 1961. He also told me of learning of
Condors in the 8th and 9th Grades in school in Modoc
County where he attended school.
I met Roy Stephansen and Robt. Carver at the Kern County
Fire Control Station in Glennville who reported not having seen
Condor this year. Mr. Carver lives near Granite Station and
was one of the men who carried the bodies out to an Ambulance,
from the Airplane wreck in which the Common Lodu was involved,
last spring. He also told me, Mr. Carver that is, that the
Condor that had been held captive in Bakersfield at the
home of State Game Warden Mr. Shackelford, was found
near his home and that it had been banded before it
was taken into Bakersfield. Carver thought it had a
broken leg, but he was not sure. He stated that a dead
cow was near where this Condor had been captured.
Carver
also stated that Judge Stockton of Bakersfield
had fed rabbits to this Condor and that the Condor had eaten
the rabbits. Could it be that this Condor—a young bird—had
become gorged with food and became ill and thought to be
dead and captured while it could have managed to survive
if left alone?
Telephoned Mansion Vincent from Woody. Mr. Vincent told
me of seeing two Condor over his home on June 13, 1963. Mr. Vincent
has never seen Condor in the mountains where they run their
cattle in the Summer time.
Home at 7:30 p.m.