California condor survey field notes, v1476
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California Condor Eben McMillan 3 august 1963 Frazier Mountain, as this bird moved on northward about one quarter mile past his station he heard several shots and saw the condor bank sharply, flapping its wings, and hurriedly move out of the area. Mr. Calhoun felt sure the hunter was shooting at the condor as it passed above. Mr. Calhoun said the condors that pass southward from his station, usually do so in the late afternoon and always seem to head for The big Rock Outcrop of Topa Topa mountain that lies about twenty miles to the south by southwest. Calhoun also thought condor only flew over Frazier mountain on windy days and never in the early morning. It is usually after ten or eleven o'clock that they come by his station, he said. Both mr. and mrs. Calhoun think shooting should be restricted to Deer and Quail season in the National forests. They maintain that Shooting goes on steadily throughout the year, mostly on weekends. They do not feel that anything is gained by maintaining the National Forests as a shooting gallery where people come to practice shooting skills. The Calhouns were stationed at Thorn Point Lookout in 1960. They saw condor there regularly, but not as often as they do here on Frazier mountain. Last Year during deer hunting season a black cow was shot below the Lookout on Frazier mountain. Mr. Calhoun said it laid for a mouth, bloated and puffed up, but was never eaten on by Condor or Buzzards. I watched a red-tailed hawk circle up above the mountain rim about one quarter mile southwest of the Frazier mountain lookout. From the way it was blown