California condor survey field notes, v1476
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Frazier Mt. -Continued- P.3/6 California Condor Ebou Mcmillan /16 September 1963 the Condor flying- The next time Mr. [illegible] rode by this area where the two Doe Deer Carcasses lay, he said he found them to be eaten up by Condor and Coyotes. The fact that this Mr. [illegible] observed a Condor in a pine tree near the Deer Carcasses that would remain perched in the tree while he rode under the tree, attests to the vulnerability of Condor during the Deer hunting season. Mr. Calhoun said that A hunter was shot in the leg by another hunter, on Mount Pinos, yesterday. Mr. Calhoun stated that according to word received through the U.S. Forest Service, the victim had been sitting near the base of a pine tree. Another hunter seeing this sitting hunter move, fired a shot in the direction of the moving object to scare it so he could see what was doing the moving—The bullet hit a rock and glanced off entering the sitting hunters leg. This just another instance of the carelessness carelessness of persons who hunt deer in the National Forests Lands where Condor hunt for food throughout the Deer hunting Season in Coastal California. The same is no doubt similar during the later, or interior deer season. At 2:05 AM, as we drove down from the Frazier Mountain Lookout, about one-half way down grade we saw an adult Condor come over the top of Frazier mountain, from the South, and soaring at a fast rate moved out over the Northwest slope of Frazier Mt. then turned somewhat to the Northeast and without stopping to circle, or even flap its wings- moved across—