California condor survey field notes, v1476
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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 -