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California Condor
Eben McMillan
11 December 1963
Driving towards Granite Station the grass got better the farther
I went. I stopped at the home of Edna Williams three miles
Northeast of Granite Station and was told that she had heard no
word of Condor having been sighted by anyone lately. From the
Edna Williams home I called Mrs. Glenn Record who lives below
the Oak Flat Lookout on Battlesnake Grade and was told that none
of her family had seen Condor this winter (since
September), even though they had been especially watchful for
them, and that for some time she and her husband, and
son, had been busy gathering cattle on the west foothills
of Breckenridge Mountain in November, but had seen no Condor.
Even though it was cold and overcast at the home of Mrs.
Edna Williams when I was talking to Mrs. Glenn Record on the
phone, she informed me that the sun was shining at her home
on the South end of Greenhorn Mountain, not that it was warm.
I called Hugh Smith also from Edna Williams home. Hugh
had seen no Condor lately nor had he talked to anyone who
had seen any. He said that so far, this was the best year for
glass he had ever witnessed in this time of year in the
Granite Station area in the 70 odd years he has been here.
He doubted that Condor ever come into the Granite Station
area in the winter months. He thinks they usually show up in
the spring.
I also called Jim Ben Williams who lives two miles
North of Edna Williams - Jim Ben had seen no Condor since
the last one he reported to me in October 2nd South of
Granite Station when the Cow ran it way from her calf. Jim -