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Frazier Mt.
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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—