California condor survey field notes, v1476
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Tehachapi .continued- California Condor. Eben McMillan 24 July 1963 Food Fed on this Bull Carcass. A man, who said he was from the Fish and Game department came by and said to Phillips - "Why you have all the Condors in existence right here on your ranch". The man told Mr. Phillips that there was only supposed to be 280 or 30 Condor alive in existence. Mr. Phillips told the Fish and Game man that someone was wrong for he (Phillips) had seen many more than 30 Condor together several times. The Fish and Game man then inquired of Mr. Phillips if he knew where the Condor roosted. Mr. Phillips said that he told the man that only a week before, in the late evening, he was riding in the upper reaches of Charlie Moore Canyon, a tributary of White Rock Creek, and saw the Condor coming in to roost in large live Oak trees that grew there. The Fish and Game man then went to Charlie Moore Canyon and upon returning told Vic Phillips that what he saw there would have seemed incredible had he not went and seen for himself. Vic Phillips thought the Fish and Game man told him he had counted 80 or more Condor in Charlie Moore Canyon. Phillips can't remember the number the man gave as seeing but it was above 80 Condor he felt sure. Before the Fish and Game man went to Charlie Moore Canyon to see the Condor roost he had taken a photo of Two Condor, one Grote, several Buzzards and a number of Raven, all feeding on the Bull Carcass at the same time. He told Phillips he would send him a print of this negative but Phillips never received the print. Vic Phillips saw two Condor flying one mile south of Tehachapi about one year ago. xxxx = Vic Phillips, about 30 years ago, saw Two Condor catch a Jackrabbit near Tehachapi. He told me that on this occasion he was riding houseback down a roadway when a Young Jackrabbit got up out of the brush near the roadside and ran down the road before Phillips. A Condor -