Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
California Condor
Eben McMillan
28 August 1963
Evelyn Farnsworth wrote letter on August 26, 1963 that is
filed with Condor correspondence. The following is a list of her
observations. The place, bar ranch, 3 mi. south of Glenville, Kern Co. Calif.
8/17 at 9:25 Young Condor circling over house
8/17 at 10:40 Two adults " " "
1 young - dim white along leading edge of wing.
"at 11:15- 5 adults
8/17 at 9:50 - 1 adult over " " house
8/17 at 4:15- 5 " " " started N.W. Towards
Blue mountain then turned due west as far as I could see them.
8/18 at 10:25 (A.M.) 2 adult sitting in bent pine
1 young but not the same one I saw 8/17
1 adult fed him in pine at 10:40 A.M.
8/18 at 4:05 pm 5 adults circling over barn
8/19 at 7:30 AM 1 adult + 1 young that was here yesterday
sitting in dead pine 50 ft. east of where the
one stayed all night when McMillan here.
(this pine was one of several dead pine that are west on the
ridge from the bent pine - this about 3/4 mile south of Farnsworth
house) c.m.
8/19 at 9:35- 4 adult circling over barn
8/19 at 9:40- 1 adult left the others and sailed N.W. as far as
I could see him.
It is interesting to note that Evelyn Farnsworth thought the
Young Condor she saw on separate days were different birds. I
also thought this but it is possible the white under a young-
Condor's wings may show up differently at certain times
of the day and under different situations.
It is also interesting that she saw an adult feed a young
on the same bent pine in which I saw two adults, at what I
took to be feeding young.