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California Condor Eben D. McMillan 11 December 1963
Ben also thinks Condor leave the Granite Station area in
the winter months and do not show up again until spring.
He also thought this one of the best feed years he has seen
in many years at this stage of the growth.
Leaving Edna Williams home at 3:00 p.m. I drove to
the Warren Stockton Residence where I chatted with Warren
and Mrs. Stockton, Neither of whom had seen [illegible]
of Condor. Mrs. Stockton was banding White Crowed
Sparrows that she said were particularly easy to trap
today due to the overcast and the cold weather making them
come to the trap in droves seeking food. She had just banded
a white-crowned-sparrow that had been in their traps in the
winter of 1960, or should I say re-banded.
I then drove to the home of Clara Stockton Armstrong
and found her at home, but her boy Philip Armstrong from
whom I had gotten the Condor remains last month, and
Gary Snow, were in Bakersfield. Mrs. Armstrong said that
she does not let anyone shoot the Bob-Cats that are
on her property—She said she does not think they do
any harm to cattle and that she just likes to see them
around. According to Mrs. Armstrong no one had seen
Condor in the area of her property for months.
She said that she had seen the dead Condor when it
lay near the feed-bunk on her place but that she had thought
it to be an eagle or the hawks, she did not think of it being
a Condor.
Mrs. Armstrong answered the phone while I was at her place—