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california condor
Eben McMillan
11 July 1963
him where she had seen the Condor body. He
drove to this spot, that is about '2 mile to the
south of his home, and moving the Condor Carcass
onto a sheet of galvanized roofing metal that
he towed behind his Jeep, he hauled the Carcass to
his house, where it lay on the metal, with another
Galvanized Metal Sheet over it for a Cover,
all Summer. Sometime in the fall Mrs. Brown
Came, loaded the odorous Condor Carcass into her
Station Wagon and took it to her home.
Carl West told me of five Condor that came, in
1961, to feed on a dead heifer that lay across
the highway from his house, and about 200 feet
from the highway. Mr. and Mrs. West watched these
Condor from their house throughout the day they
fed there. When automobiles came by on the
highway the Condors would run up the hill
that was immediately behind where the dead
heifer lay. If an automobile would stop
and its occupants get out to look at the
Condor, they would (the Condor) take to the air,
circle the area until the road was clear
of automobiles, and people, when they would
return and feed on the heifer Carcass again.
Carl West had read of the experiences of Lewis
Wayne Walker in his effort to capture Condor for
the San Diego Zoo, in the Fillmore area. Mr. West
thought Walker very inefficient in his not being
able to Capture Condor, for on occasion, he has
found Condor feeding in the valleys on the property
he manages, and was able to run up close to them,
with a Jeep Car, before they could get off the ground.
On one occasion we're it not that a house