California Condor Eben Darchillan 3 December 1963 field where I saw the Eagles and the Hawks but farther on east about two miles the east wind was blowing a Gale and the Temperature was cold. Looking back from this place I could see two Golden Eagles Circling above the field with the Hawks. At the mouth of the Canyon that Comes down from the Wallace place that is along the Northeast boundary of the Cholane Ranch property a great band of Linnets were feeding on the ground and drinking from the stream that Comes down this Canyon and dissipates into the Flat Country here. I crudely guessed there to be ten thousand Linnets in this flock. These birds were feeding in a Compact group that kept moving about all the time by the rear birds flying up to the front in the direction the flock was moving. Now and then a segment of this flock would rise up 30 or 40 feet into the air only to settle down again in a movement much like Smoke being blown upward only to drop downward again a few feet away. I walked to within 150 feet of these Linnets while they still fed and chirped - I whistled and the Compact mass of birds rose up about 40 feet and then settled back on the ground and continued feeding and chirping - a loud shrill whistle how set them all to flight. They now flew up to a good height. Circled about in a wide circle, the tag end of the flock appearing like the end of a String that was being snapped like a whip - lower and wider of circle then the leading end of the flock. after a flurry of about one -