California Condor Eben McMillan 25 November 1963 flying from the large flock that were standing in the stubble field To a pool of water that had collected at the edge of the road on which we were traveling during the last rain of 4 or 5 days ago. About 150 cranes were gathered about this pool and took flight as soon as we approached within Two hundred yards them. The cranes that have wintered on the Carrisa plains for as long as people can remember spend the nights standing out in the middle of the Soda Lake when it is dry or standing in shallow water in one of the many arms of this lake when water collects here in seasons of heavy rainfall. They have always, in the past, spent the mid-day hours standing in the sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) that surrounds the Soda Lake for some distance out on both ends and along the east side. The west side of Soda Lake where the County Road runs rather close to the Shore has only a narrow band of this shrub. This Shooting, that has only become a problem since California Valley Development came into being, has multiplied this shrub area as daytime loafing area and has caused much disturbance to the cranes. Some Sissag was drifting into the southern end of the Carrisa Plains via the Elkhorn Valley and Maricopa. The Cuyuma valley was clear. Quail hunters were packed along the highway or up in canyons that lead down into the Cuyuma Valley as well as along the route through the Santa Lucia Mountains and down the Sespe river before Highway 399 crosses out of the Sespe and enters the North fork of the Ventura River drainage. We stopped at the Top of the grade before dropping down into the Ventura River drainage and photographed the accumulation of cans, broken glass and ammunition cases and boxes that are along the road that turns off Highway 399 at the Top of Dry Lakes Ridge and passes over into Rose Valley and the