California Condor Helen King 10 July 1963 Vultures. The smaller ones are buzzards—they are dirty and brown and not black like vultures. She thought people who write bird books should know of this for she never sees these differences in scavenger birds recorded in bird books. In 1952 when on Cook Peak Lookout, Helen King saw an eagle come very close to her station. As it flew close by she made a quick mental observation of the width of this eagle’s wings in relation to the upright posts on the railing around the station. She found the eagle to measure 9 feet from wing tip to wing tip. In 1961, on Oak Flat Lookout, Helen King saw twenty condors in one flock, circling about her station. Ten of these condors were yearlings and ten were two year old birds. None were adults she said. Condor mostly pass just to the left of Oak Flat Lookout according to Helen King. They usually seem to come from the southeast and continue on towards the northwest. After a stay of two or three days these birds return in a direct reverse direction on the same route. Helen King thinks they stay in the Tehachapi Mountains. Helen King is considered an authority on condor, and sights many more condors than does any other lookout station according to what I was told by @pal Grimies and District Ranger James Toland, at the Bakersfield office. Helen King told me that Mrs. Morrison, of Breckenridge Mountain Lookout, had been turning in condor observations on three separate days during the last week. Mrs. King said she thought these observations of no value for she said Mrs. Morrison is new and does not know condor. I talked to Mrs. Morrison on the phone from Helen King’s Lookout. She said she used the identification marks that I had pointed out to her in photographs as a basis on which to establish the