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Glammille
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California Condor Eben Mcmillan 29 august 1963 3329
Of their cattle getting shot is quite hazardous.
The Vincents and the Bowens run cattle on Tobias Peak.
Mrs. Rogers consented to keep records of any Condor
she might see passing her lookout that she can
positively identify
Mrs. Farnsworth was not home when I arrived at
her home at 4:40 p.m. The Farnsworth's hired man
Bill was loading hay on a pickup truck. He told me of
seeing one Condor on 27 august circling to the East of
the Ranch buildings at 3:00 p.m.
At 4:45 p.m. an adult Condor appeared circling up
out of the flat that lies just west of the Farnsworth home.
Several buzzards also circled up from the same spot.
The Condor showed no signs of having fed heavily
for no gap could be seen in the breast feathers.
This Condor, an adult, had a pattern of missing feathers
that I had noticed on an adult Condor at this same
location on August 14 and 15. The left wing of this
bird had a large gap in about the center of the wing and
a smaller gap about the distance of 4 or 5 inches
farther out towards the end of the wing. The right wing
was intact except for a good sized gap between the
body and the first secondary feather as if one or
possibly two of the secondaries could be missing.
Below is a rough figure of this adult Condor.
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The above condor circled quite high while drifting eastward then at 5:05
p.m. it went into a flip slide and sailed off towards the South.
Mrs. Farnsworth called me at home at 8:30 p.m. and