Granite Station. - continued - P.326 California Condor Eben McMillian 18 September 1963 History Carl West home, two miles west of Granite Station. The elder Williams told Jim Ben and the other children of seeing these four or five vultures when he arrived home. Jim Ben Williams told me he first saw Condor in the summer of 1922 when he worked poisoning squirrels on the Tejon Ranch. 1922 was a very dry year, according to Jim Ben, and here the Tejon Cattle were dying quite often. He remembers seeing Cattle Carcasses on which seven or eight Condor would be feeding. In a circle ringing the carcass and at a circle ringing the carcass and at a safe distance from the Condors would be lots of Buzzards, then, in another Outer ring would be many Raven. When the men on horseback would dash towards this gathering of birds the Buzzards and Raven would spring directly into the air; but the Condor they would labor for some distance, beating up dust as they flapped their wings, before setting air-borne. Jim Ben Williams has no recollection of seeing dead Condor, nor of seeing anyone shoot at Condor. I stopped at the home of Warren and Frances Stockton who live on the Woody-Granite Station Road about three miles north of Granite Station. Mrs. Stockton informed me they had seen four Condor feeding on the Carcass of a dead cow during the latter part of July. In fact she thought it was about the same time that I saw the two Condor over the Quisbale home - that could have been on 10 July 1963 The following is how the Stocktons described to me the experience they encountered in finding a sick Condor on their property in late June of 1960 and of it subsequently dying Food Condor Food Sick Condor