California condor survey field notes, v1476
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California Condor Eben McMillan 21 August 1963 weeks. I lunched at upper hunter-overflow campground. The couple who slept in their pickup truck last night were also here and having lunch. They had seen no deer. Had done no shooting. Thought they would never come to Frazier Mountain again to hunt due to the scarcity of deer. I stopped at Chuckupate Ranger Station at the foot of Frazier Mountain grade and looked up Bill Harper who gave me the Condor Notes he had compiled in 1957-58-59 while he was Condor warden in the Fillmore, Sespe area. Bill Harper was happy to let us have the notes and is looking forward to the time when he can accompany Jan and me into the Lower Sespe and Hopper Canyon Country to check on the known Condor Nests he had under observation when he was patrolling the Condor Refuge. Mr. Harper told me he left the Condor warden job due to his having a chance at advancement in pay that would not be forthcoming should he remain in the position of Condor warden. He said he liked the job during the time he worked at it and that he was never unhappy with any aspect of the work he performed there. Mr. Harper told me of knowing a fire warden who admitted having shot a condor just to see what it looked like. Harper thinks Condors are shot on occasions, mostly by people who know nothing of this bird. I drove to Gorman, on Highway 99 - passed up then drove to Old Ridge Route at Sandburg where I checked with Philip Goodell of L.A. Fire Dept., who had seen no Condor this year. I phoned Liebene Mary Stahl, attendant at Liebene Mountain Lookout who recorded a Condor on 22 July 1963 at 15:40 o'clock heading westward as it passed her station. I drove to Neenach, in the Antelope Valley, where I checked with one shepherd who had seen no Condor. I camped for the