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California Condor.
Page 33
11 March-1963- Continued
Eben Millman
11 March, 1963
From the Oaks there.
Bill Percy took gun and I to the top of Hopper Mountain
and out to the point where Kofoed had his lookout,
overlooking the Hole in the Wall at 4:00 p.m., we saw
Three Condor sitting in the top of the spruce tree that
stands to the south side of the Cirque of the
Hole-in-the-Wall. Another Condor was seen
Circling above the Hole-in-the-Wall. This bird alighted
on a ledge on the North Face of the Hole. At 4:20 p.m.,
another Condor was seen to drop in from above and
alight in a cave on the south side of the Cirque.
When we left the point--4 Condors were perched on
ledges on north side of Cirque and one in the Cave on
the south side of the Cirque.
I phoned Sid Peyton who told me Jack Cairns
was sick and could not go with us to see
the nest I had talked to him about before, and
Sid also said he could not get permission to enter
the refuge with us, and that Mr. Parkinson, the
U.S. Forest Service representative in the Ojai Office,
Wanted to talk with us so that he or someone else
could take us into the [illegible]. I then called Mr.
Parkinson and explained to him that we were only
interested in seeing this nest site that Mr. Peyton
had described to us and that we could now wait for
official recognition from the Forest Service before
having them go into the area with us. I told Mr.
Parkinson, over the phone, that we would drop in and
visit him tomorrow.