Santa Paula Canyon P.336 California Condor Eben Mcmillan 19 October 1963 Jan and I arose from our bags before sunrise and after a hasty breakfast were on our way. The sky was clear but hazy. The air was damp. A blanket of fog lay below the 2000 foot elevation. No sign of recent usage was in evidence around Last Chance Camp except for horse tracks and manure. We saw many white Throated Swifts, several Fox Sparrow, lots of both brown and Rufous sided Towhees and several small units of Western bluebirds; Anna's hummingbirds were about most of the time and when it's called continually from the Chaparral. At 11:00 A.M., at a spot on the trail on the Northwest side of Santa Paula River bed, and about one quarter mile above the river bottom, and about one-half way down river from Last Chance Camp to Big Cone Camp, an adult Condor was seen circling just above the Chaparral atop a ridge that was off to our left about one quarter mile away and about 300 feet above our elevation. Fog was rising from the lower valley and forming clouds in the area where this Condor circled. At times it would disappear into these clouds as it circled upward. At 11:02 A.M., another Condor joined this first bird seeming to come up over the ridge from the west. Both Condors circled until 11:05 when they both went into a flex slide and hurriedly flew out to the Northeast. These two Condors had gained considerable altitude in the short time that they circled. At 11:12 A.M., after we had proceeded down the trail, a Short distance An immature Condor was observed circling over the same area where the two adult Condors were formerly seen. This young Condor displayed the characteristics of a 2nd year bird. Some mottled white under the wings, a lack of the definite white wing bar on the upper parts of the wings and the dark band with dull brown upper plumage. A Young Condor has some