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California Condor
Eben Mcmillan
10 September
Watching, a distance of about 175 Yards
from our position and also where the Pickup Truck
was parked in open view. It is also worthy of
that when circling the area before dropping it
food on the Carcasses, the Condor would swing to
200 Yards of this position where Ian and I
out on open ground with the pickup truck
the open also.
Some minutes after the above mentioned Condor
flew down Canyon and lit in tree opposite us,
Condor flew from the area of the Carcasses and
Pumping its way down Canyon alighted on the same
limb as did this former bird. It was now
we could plainly see that the last bird to come to
this location was a ring-neck immature. It is
to the inside of the adult bird on the limb and
farthest away from where we sat. This Ring-Necked
bird frequently stretched its neck out, and down
Giving us a perfect opportunity to see the reddish
Pink of its lower Neck contrasted against the black
Grey of its headskin that only showed the dark
where it covered the skull bones. Another Adult Condor
that had flown up from the Canyon bottom where
Carcasses were and alighted on a dead Pine snag
above, and East, of the pine, where the Adult and
Black-headed young perched was now joined by
another Condor that also flew up from below and
after alighting, showed plainly, as it cleaned its
neck on the limb on which it sat, that it was
a ring-necked bird. Thus three adult Condors sat
in separate locations after having come from the
area where the Cow Carcasses lay and each of them
was separately joined by three immature birds