Cholame 469 California Condor Eben Mcmillan 18 December 1963 It was cold as I drove to Cholame Rancho at 10:00 A.M. After questioning 911 personnel I could find no one who had seen condor of late. The grass throughout the countryside is turning brown and shows the effects of the cold weather and the lack of rain. I drove out to the Northeast end up ridge to west of Red Rock Spring Canyon to the North boundary of the Cholame Rancho property and stopped many times along the way to search the sky for large birds - one Ferruginous Rough-legged hawk was perched on an electric line pole about two miles south of Cholame Ranch headquarters and four marsh hawks were seen flying about above the alfalfa fields in the flats two miles southeast of Cholame Ranch headquarters; and Raven were seen from time to time. Otherwise, no large birds could be found. Two small flocks, and one immense one, of linnets were feeding along the north side of the Cholame valley, the largest of which was on the foothills just east of the mouth of Rock Corral Canyon. A letter received from Waldo Abbott of the Museum of Natural History at Santa Barbara stated that he saw one condor on December 3, 1963 flying upstream along San Juan river at the point where highway 178 crosses the San Juan river and known as the La Panza Bridge area. Mr. Abbott noted that the bird was about 500 ft. high and was seen at 1:30 P.M.