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California Condor.
Nuvajo
Page 36
u mcmillan
13 march, 1963
Called Muriel Kenwood in Three Rivers, Calif. at 8:30 A.M.
to arrange to meet her next week in regards to getting
information on Condor that Peter Jordan of M.I.V.Z. had
seen there in 1958.
At 9:15 A.M. I drove to the Navajo Canyon area
and looked for Condor until 3:30 P.M., but saw no
sign of them. I hauled a dead sheep from where
a sheep shearing operation was going on in the
Navajo Valley to the top of the Navajo Ridge and
left it under observation. Even though this sheep
carcass was about two days old and smelling
strongly no Buzzards came to it today even though
upwards to a dozen of these birds were sailing
about the area most of the day. A Golden Eagle came
and fed on this carcass for an hour, from
two to three P.M..
The weather clear and cold with a brisk East
wind blowing.
The man who operates the sheep-shearing project
that is working in the Navajo, a Mr. Montalvo, from
Bakersfield, stated that his shearers were only processing
1700 or 1800 sheep a day where they should be doing
more than 2000 well it not that the sheep are so poor,
thus making for slower shearing of the wool.