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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