California Condor Eben McMillan 24 July 1963 moderate summer temperatures seem to continue. I arrived in Bakersfield at 9:00 A.M. via Blackwell's Corner-Bellridge-Shafter. Phoned Henry Melendy of Lobec, who will take me to North Tejon Ranch mountain area next Thursday at 8:00 A.M. I then drove to mouth of Caliente Wash where Martin Ansolihere has three bands of sheep on stubble or some stubble and some unharvested barley that was not fit to harvest. Lazaro Vara, a shepherd for Ansolihere, and who can talk some English, told me he had seen no birds that would answer the description of a Condor. He said Buzzards had been about when sheep die, and Ravens in good numbers, but he felt sure no Condor. Martin Ansolihere knows Condor, having been in the sheep business in the Bakersfield area for many years. He told me that he had seen no Condor for four or five years. Both Ansolihere and his three sheep herders will be on the lookout for Condor and notify me in the event they observe any. Driving from Caliente Wash to White Wolf Pass, via Arvin, I lunched near the Tejon cattle corrals in White Wolf Pass. Saw no large birds. Lazaro Vara told me he had found a large bird that he thought had been shot near where his sheep feed. This is along the line of Arizona Cypress, or Salt Cedar, trees that ring the property of De Georgia Corporation, who are large agricultural operators north of Arvin. Vara said there is someone shooting along these trees nearly every day and that it gets quite dangerous when they shoot through the trees not knowing anyone is on the opposite side. He said the dead bird was brown with a hooked beak, probably a redtailed hawk. I could not find it. [illegible] food items [illegible] scarcity shooting death bird