California condor survey field notes, v1476
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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