Page 21 California Condor Eben Mcmillan 22-Feb. 1963 Coast fog lay in the San Juan river bottom and a cool east wind was blowing off a bank of San Joaquin valley fog that hung along top of Temblor and Bitterwater Hills as Gregory McMillan and I left for the Navajo-San Juan, and La Punza area at 8:00 A.M. in my pickup truck, arriving in the Navajo Canyon, via San Juan, and French Camp we checked with the French Shepherd there and found he had seen no large birds this morning. We then drove up a ridge to the top of Navajo ridge and chatted with a Spanish Basque Shepherd camped there who told us, in Spanish, of seeing large birds yesterday. We drove southwest one mile, along crest of ridge and came upon one Condor and about 8 Turkey vultures feeding on the carcasses of dead sheep that were scattered about the area where trucks had unloaded sheep yesterday. The Condor and two of the vultures were feeding on the carcass of a small lamb. We stopped the pickup upon seeing the Condor and watched it for a few minutes with binoculars from a distance of about 300 yards. The Condor flew about a bit, as we watched, and alighted again about 50 feet from where it flew from, formally. After walking about some, the Condor then took off and circled about for about 5 minutes before it headed towards the east for about 1/2 mile then turned north and continued on this course for about two miles when it was seen to drop down towards the Navajo canyon. It was 11:00 A.M. when we first sighted this Condor and it had disappeared towards the north by 11:30 A.M. over