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California Condor
Eben Mcmillan
13 August 19
Condor -
The employees on the Farnsworth Ranch had seen a Condor
passing over the Ranch buildings, at noon, heading
in a southerly direction.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth were absent from
Ranch when I arrived, but a note on the Yard Gate
asked that I feel free to go about the ranch.
I wished. They had not returned home when I left
ranch at 6:00 p.m. I camped at the Fulton
U.S. Forest Service Camp that is about three miles
east of Glenville. Mr. Hal Seyden who lives at the
Fulton Camp with his wife and children had not
Condor although he had been on the watch for them.
J.O. Morrow who has lived, or operated, in the
Woody-Glenville area for fifty years never saw
Condor in this area. See proceeding page - Mr.
Morrow never saw over four condors in one bunch in the Poso
Gill fields.
At 5:20 p.m., while at the carcass of the dead cow that lay
mile southeast of the Farnsworth home, two harsh sonic booms
heard in quick succession. The Turkey buzzards gave no indication
of being disturbed by these harsh explosive sounds. At 5:21
another sonic boom went the air in the same locality.
Buzzard did not react to this boom.
Mrs. Evelyn Farnsworth, who knows condor,