california Condor Eben McMillan 24 October 1963 It was mild, clear, and calm as I crossed the valley from Cholame to Famosa. Grass that has sprouted as a result of the recent rains of last week, now colors the hills both in the Temblors and the foothills to the east of Famosa. No sheep were found on the range east of Famosa, they having been moved onto alfalfa fields in the valley to stay through lambing time. Going East out of Bakersfield, on Highway 466, on the East side of Caliente Wash, I saw five Golden Eagles hunting low over a farming field that had grown up to Russian Thistle. Only one of these birds could be identified as an immature. One of the adults called sporadically and another adult of this group was seen to power upwards and then dive with wings folded, several times. I have seen this activity at all times of the year before. I doubt that it is all due to nuptial display, as these eagles coursed over these fields I could see them looking intently into the Russian Thistle bushes. Jack Jensen told me he had seen no Condor in the Arvin-White Wolf area since my last visit there. He did say that the boy who works with him reported seeing one Condor feeding on the carcass of a dead calf east of Arvin in the foothills about Two weeks ago. An attendant at the Union Oil Company service station in Arvin said he had heard of several Condor being seen in the foothills to the East of Arvin about Two weeks ago. He had never seen a Condor to know one. One mile Northwest of Old Tejon headquarters on the road