California Condor Eban McMillan 8 March-1963 The temperature was very moderate as I drove down the Palo Prieta Canyon and up the Cholame Valley to the Kern grade, which I took up into the hills to reach an observation point that would overlook the Condor roosting area back of the Gene Rambo house that is Situated on the west side of the Cholame Valley just above the Monterey-San Luis Obispo County line. As I drove to the Kern Lake area I met Gene Rambo herding hay to his cattle. He then led the way to a point on the North side of Maule Canyon that overlooked his house and also a hillside where he had dragged the carcass of a dead Calf about three days ago and on which he said Several Buzzards had been feeding, but no Condor. We watched this area for Several hours and saw Several Buzzards but No Condor, Gene Rambo said that Condors Come to this area to roost mostly in bad weather. During a Stormy Period he Saw an adult Condor Sitting in a Pine in late afternoon. A Condor was in the Same tree, on the Same limb the following afternoon. Rambo thinks Condor will Stay in one place for several days during Periods of bad, stormy weather. A ground fog that filled the Salinas Valley moved up on a Stiff West Wind at 10:00 A.M. and the temperature turned quite Cold. Clouds gathered in the Westerly sky in P.M.