California Condor Eben McMillan 15 August 1963 I spent the night at the Fulton Guard Station of the U.S. Forest Service. No one at this station knows condors. Of the YOLO Young fellows who camp here at Fulton, Only one lad from Fillmore had ever heard of condors. He claimed to have seen three condors in the Sespe River region. Hal Seydam, who lives at Fulton Station with his family and who cruises timber for the U.S. Forest Service in the Glickhorn Mountain area, has never seen a condor. At 6:45 a.m. I arrived at my observation point of yesterday that is only about 200 yards east by southeast from the Farnsworth home. The sun had not yet reached into the area where the condors were roosting. Late yesterday evening after I had left the condors must have been quite active, as one condor was on the top of a small dead pine, on the top of the ridge south of the cow carcass. This was the only condor on the horizon. Mrs. Farnsworth later told me of seeing this condor come to roost on the top of this small dead tree on the horizon just before dark last night. She thought it strange that so large a bird would choose such a small perch to roost overnight on. The top of the pine where the condor roosted could not have been over 3 inches in diameter—the pine was dead. As the sun shone into the canyon making observation better, I commenced seeing other condors. An adult condor was perched on the dead oak limb that is within 70 feet of the cow carcass and which was used by condors as a perch on several occasions yesterday. The young condor was perched in a small pine tree about 200 yards southwest of the carcass. Two adult condors were together, on separate small branches of a pine tree 3/4 of the way to the top of the ridge to the south. As the light grew better more condors were seen on separate perches. One adult condor was perched on a branch about finger size, in the top of a small pine tree 1/2 up the ridge to the south