Granite Station P.380 California condor Eben McMillan 16 october 1963 It rained throughout the night. I drove to Granite Station, arriving at the home of Jim Ben Williams by 8:00 A.M. It had rained there also but only lightly. Both Jim Ben and his wife redescribed to me the condor sighting experience of last Monday. It was just as he had described it to me last night. Jim Ben said the calf that the condor was near on Monday was the only one out of five calves that had died within the last six weeks that had been eaten on by anything excepting the calf carcasses that the nine condors were feeding on below his house on 13 September 1963. Mrs. Williams said she had her rifle in the Jeep and could have easily shot this condor had she been of a mind to do so. Both Jim Ben and Mrs. Williams thought they saw a growth, or a wattle such as a turkey gobbler has on the front of its head on this condors head. Mrs. Jim Ben Williams told me that when discussing with several ladies of the Cow Bells, an auxiliary of the California Cattlemen's Association, at a meeting in Bakersfield, their seeing condor in the Granite Station area lately, a Mrs. Freyberger, who lives in Buttonwillow and whose husband manages a cattle feedlot for the Houchin interests in the Buttonwillow area, had seen a condor near the feedlot in Buttonwillow. She told Mrs. Williams that several buzzards had remained about the feedlot during the summer and that one condor was seen with them on one occasion. I will check into this. Frank Stockton, who lives in Bakersfield, but ranches in the Granite Station area, came to the Jim Ben Williams home soon after I arrived there. He told me of seeing 7 or 8 condors flying high above Florence Lake at the headwaters of the South fork of the San Joaquin river in the high Sierra Nevada range. Mr. Frank Stockton also saw one -