California Condor Ebenezer McMillan 20 August 1963 Left home at 12:35AM and was in Bakerfield by 2:15AM. Called at the office of Fish and Game warden Clayton but he was out. Drove to White Wolf Pass, via old highway 466. A stiff southwest wind was blowing through the White Wolf Pass as I parked the pickup for 30 minutes. Saw no large birds in the air. Drove to Lobe, via Atvin, where I stopped and checked with Henry McLeindy Tajon Ranch Headquarters. Henry was having trouble with Deer hunters on the west side of Highway 99 where the Deer hunting season is now open. The east side of Highway 99 does not open to Deer hunting with guns until the latter part of September. Dove season commences on 31 August. Henry McLeindy expects a good deal of hunting poaching pressure on the first weekend of Dove season. I showed photographs of Condor to both McLeindy and the lady at the switchboard. Arrived on top of Frazier Mountain at 5:30PM. A fire was in progress in the Little Sespe Canyon near Fillmore according to Mr. Calhoun who tends the Frazier Mountain Lookout with his wife. This fire had only commenced burning this afternoon and it smoldered was holding low and being blown eastward into the Liebre and Antelope Valley areas. Mr. Calhoun gave me his August reports of Condor that included 5 birds on the 15th and 7 birds on the 15 later in the day. The following are his Condor records to date— 8/4/63 at 12:25 Two Condor alighted on west face of East Frazier Peak. 8/3/63 at 10:05 One Condor, going southwest. 8/15/63 at 11:27 Two Condor going southwest. 8/13/63 at 11:45 Five Condor alight on west face of East Frazier. 8/15/63 at 3:05 Seven Condor Circling above East Frazier Peak 8/18/63 at 5:55 One Condor going southwest. Mr. Calhoun stated that the Condor which alighted on the west slope of East Frazier Peak seemed to drop into brush covering that was directly below an opening he pointed out to me from the lookout. In order to check out this important observation on August 15 which was the same date I was watching other Condor at Glennville, in North Kern County, [illegible] Frazier Peak. P-273 [illegible]