California Condor Page 15 en McMillan 15-February-1963 It was foggy and damp this morning, turning to high thin clouds in afternoon and cooler in the evening. I drove to Cholame at 11:00 A.M., then on out Highway 466 to Blackwells Corner where big Trucks were unloading sheep brought in from Lancaster on the Mojave desert. Returning to Kecks Corner at 3:30 P.M. and up over the McGovern grade I saw one adult Golden Eagle sitting atop a telephone pole above the Alley James Homestead Cabin-Then to the Davies Ranch where I was told by Gilbert Davies (who knows condors) that no Condor had been seen there since last summer. Gilbert Davies, in describing to his hired man the immensity of a Condor thought its wingspread to be 15 or 16 feet. He nevertheless did furnish a very good description of a Condor leaving the ground, with his arms as wings-Gilbert Davies beat the air much as a Condor does when setting off the ground-flexing his elbows and wrists to show the loosejointed appearance of the Condors wings, he did a remarkable job. He also had the white under the wings well in mind. Ernest Still who lives 3 miles east of Davies Ranch had not seen Condor for a year or more, he said. Ernest Still feels that Condor are not as scarce as stated. Several People have told him in recent years of seeing 60 or 70 Condor in a bunch. Still knows Condor, a Condor that fell into one of his water tanks many years ago was given to State Game Warden Les Arnold of Kern Co.