California condor survey field notes, v1476
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Glenmville P.370 California Condor Eben McMillan 9 October 1963 irresponsible group that should be controlled more effectively. He feels that with the numbers of deer hunters increasing each year that the problems between them and private land owners will become more acute. He feels deer hunters will become more powerful in their demands to be allowed to hunt on private lands. Mrs. Evalyn Farnsworth had seen no condor lately. A cow belonging to her neighbor had died up the canyon above her house, last week, from what was thought to be the effects of a deer hunter's bullet. No condor, nor even a buzzard, came to feed on the carcass of this cow. She said the last buzzards went south about the last two days of September. I telephoned Marion Vincent from the Woody Fire Guard Station. Marion said that the only condor he had seen of late was two birds circling over his house on August 2, 1963. He is moving his cows down from the upper ranch next week to calve out at his home place. Only seven or eight calves have been dropped so far. Marion thinks condor will come in when his cows commence calving heavily. The man who works as relief lookout at Blue Ridge Lookout Northeast of Woody said in a telephone conversation that he had not seen condor in the area of Blue Ridge Lookout for two years. Mrs. Jim Holmes, a young lady who has lived in Poso Flats between Granite Station and Greenhorn Ridge, has never seen a condor, but knows they are around and would very much like to see one. She told me that condor had been seen near the Jim Ben Williams home recently. Mrs. Smith, who lives in Poso Flats and has been living there since 1933, professes a knowledge and an interest in birds of-