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Eben Midmillan
California Condor-Cont.
22.Feb.1963
There seems little doubt that this bird we
Observed in the Navajo at 12:00 p.m. was the same
bird we saw on the Navajo ridge an hour earlier
in the day. The head was not observed to be bright
Yellow when we saw this bird at 11:00 A.M. even
though White was detected under the wings.
In the Navajo one hour later, this birds head was
very orange and the white under the wings
appeared very white. Did the dull light
of the Navajo situation make the orange head
difficult to identify, or can the bird go through
color changes in the skin pigments on its
chead to a lesser or greater degree?
The Navajo bird circled about the
low hills for about 10 minutes and then
was seen no more as it disappeared
behind these hills in the direction of the
San Juan Ranch.
food
In the area where a sheep camp is located
in the lower Navajo valley there were more than
20 dead adult sheep and at least as many
lambs. At the sheep Camp on the Navajo ridge
where the Condor was first sighted there were
more than 8 adult Sheep Carcasses and more
than 10 dead Lamb carcasses- at the main sheep
camp on the San Juan river below La Panza bridge
more than 40 dead lambs were seen and more than
10 adult sheep. The Camp tender told me he
thought it the result of some Poison grass, A shepherd
told me he thought it to be Caused from Not
enough glass.
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