California Condor Eben McMillan 12 December 1963 It was down to 20 degrees this morning at Cantil according to sheep man whom I met in one of the alfalfa fields of MTR Sheep Company. Many ewes are on the fields at Cantil in the process of lambing - a good percentage of the lambs are on the ground but many are yet to be born. Dead, newborn lambs are scattered all over the place. I saw about sixty Raven, in small bunches, scattered throughout the fields feeding on the carcasses of dead lambs. Of the five shepherds and campers or camp tenders, that I talked with none had seen what he thought could be Condor coming to feed on the sheep, although one fellow thought that a few Buzzards come once in a while to feed at Cantil. I am not yet convinced that Condor do not drop in here and would like to get a warm spell when flying conditions were optimum, and stay at Cantil for a whole day and watch. It would be good to know if even Buzzards come here in mid-winter. Another thing I want to do is to get all these men acquainted with pictures of Condor and create an interest in them, so that should Condor show up along the east flank of the Sierra Nevada Range that they would recognize them and relay us the fact. Pete Atmeta, a Camper or how at Cantil for MTR Sheep Company took a photograph of a Condor from me and said he would show it to all the shepherds and advise them to be on the lookout for these birds and to report them when seen. Should Shepherds have been a problem in shooting Condor in the past, which is very probable, the fact that they know people are interested in the birds will tend to minimize minimize further shooting of Condor by them. Pete Atmeta told me he moves along the east flank of the Sierra Nevada Range in late spring ending up around Mono Lake in the