California condor survey field notes, v1476
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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.