California Condor Eben McMillan 2 October 1963 The remainder of the day was spent along the foothills from Ostrich farm to Old Ranch Headquarters. Two hawks, No buzzards nor condor were seen this p.m. The buzzard I saw on road near old headquarters was the only buzzard seen today. A Swainsons hawk, that had been dead for some month, was on the ground under trees at the Ostrich farm. Survey stakes marking where a new roadway will pass from the mouth of Grapevine Canyon to mouth of Pastoria Canyon where construction on the tunnel to carry Feather River water under the Tachapuli range is soon to commence. A backhoe was working at mouth of Pastoria Canyon today. Both photographs were taken of the dead helpers. I visited Jack Jentzen at 5:00 p.m. at his camp east of Arvin. He gave me a report of two birds he thought were condor that he saw sometime back on a hillside near the corrals at the foot of Sheep Trail Grade. I feel sure, after hearing his description of the two birds he saw, at that place, that they were Golden Eagles for he remembered seeing white on the tail of one. This would appear to be an immature Golden Eagle. It was when I cleared the town of Wasco, going west, that the sun sank into the smog and actually was too sodden as to be recognized only as a dull pinkish red ball as it passed out of sight below the horizon. An ominous sight if ever I saw one.