California Condor Eben McMillan 1st August 1963 Two more condor circled the canyon at 3:25 p.m. Two adult condor flew up from carcass and alighted in tall pine that stood in a flat, of the canyon bottom and about 150 yards from where I sat. The young condor left the pine tree in which it perched and after circling the area three times landed with a crash in another pine about 2/3 of the way to the top of the ridge, and south of the carcass. at 3:35 p.m. the adult in dead oak near carcass, and young condor, are all I could see from where I sat. 3:40 p.m. Young flew and lit on bent pine on top of ridge. Two adult Condor came and lit, one above and one below the young. At 3:50 p.m. Top adult hopped down near young and both young and adult stood on bent pine with [illegible] together very close together and the young gently flapped its wings for about ten seconds in what appeared to be a feeding activity. The adult involved with the young in this activity then flew out a bit and returned to land 20 feet below in the same tree. The lower adult, five minutes later, walked up the bent pine, to the young, and repeated the activity as did the first adult except that the apparent feeding of the young only continued for about five seconds this time. The young bird then rubbed its neck and head on the limb on which it sat. It would also use its beak to hang onto the tree when shifting position. At 4:00 p.m. 7 condor were in sight at one time, some circling some perched in pines. At 4:15 one adult condor came from canyon bottom, circled high and left to the North. The young condor flew from its perch, circled the area several times then flew out of sight towards the south behind the ridge. It was not high as it passed out of sight -