California condor survey field notes, v1476
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California Condor Eben Mcmillan 10 October 1963 pass the Oak flat Lookout heading Northwest. If one stands on the Railin outside the Oak Flat Lookout Tower and looks first Southeast, and then Northwest, it is easy to make out a general fault line in the Structure of the Sierra Nevada foothills along this route that corresponds generally with the Granite Outcropping that Commences to the South of White Wolf Pass on the Tejon Ranch East of Arvin and Continues Northwestward at least to the area about Raymond To the North of Highway 41 in Madera County. This fault line follows on a line where most Condor Observations, by residents of the West Slope of the Sierra Nevada Range, have been made. Pose flats is not on this Fault. It remains as a point of interest that Frazier Mountain Lookout and Oak Flat Lookout record Condor going North much more than they do going South. Could it be that Condor returning to the Sespe River drainage in Ventura County could maintain from Points North of the Caliente River drainage in Kern County would fly high enough to make identification by people on the ground unlikely. Gib McKenzie thinks they fly west from Tejon Canyon and continue directly across the Lower San Joaquin Valley to the Temblor or San Emigdio areas. Perhaps these Condor are heading West only to make the turn around West Slope of Brush Mountain and Cerro Noroeste (imable), cross San Emigdio Mesa and drop into the Sespe drainage without having Crossed any mountain barriers more than Five Thousand feet in elevation.