Page 19 California Condor Eben McMillan 21-February-1963 a cool wet fog covered the Salinas River Drainage area this morning, with heavy fog in the San Joaquin valley. A cool east wind that had come up yesterday morning was still blowing mildly. I drove to Dan's for breakfast at 6:00 a.m., after which we drove to the La Panza Ranch, seeing a Corote, 1/2 mile west of the Cammatta Ranch, that crossed the road in front of us, on our way. Bud Zimmerman, foreman for Jake Martins of La Panza Ranch, told us of seeing four condor eating on a dead calf that he had hauled across the road from the ranch buildings about a week ago. He was quite sure it was less than 10 days ago that the Condor were there. We then drove up the San Juan River to Willow Spring Canyon, seeing many cattle on the way that were still weak from the short winter nations. We came back out of Willow Spring Canyon and drove on up San Juan River to Beartrap Canyon where we left the pickup at end of road and hiked up Beartrap Creek to a vantage point under the Beartrap Rock where we remained for 3½ hours watching for Condor, staying from 9:00 a.m. till 12:30 p.m. No Condor came into view. At 9:45 a.m., an Eagle (Golden) flew into view, in front of the main rock face, and landed in a pine tree. At 10:40 a.m. another Golden Eagle flew back and forth in front of the main Rock face several times then circling, gained altitude and with flexed wings soared out of sight towards the Carrissa Plains. over-