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California Condor
Eben McMillan
3 February 1964
activities were carried on. During this activity several occasions occurred
when several condor would come and circle directly over our
camp. I exposed two rolls, or 38 exposures of 35mm film
on condor in flight over our camp. A 400 mm lens was mounted
on a gunstock for this purpose and when pointed at the
condor to photograph them in flight caused no unusual
reaction from the birds.
At 9:40 A.M., an immature condor was seen circling to the
north of the ridge, north of our camp. This bird was seen
on several occasions to the north of this ridge and circling
above the north end of Hopper mountain but never did it
come to join the other condor that fed around the
lower sheep carcass. At 9:50 A.M., while the above mentioned
immature condor was still circling to the north of Hopper
mountain, nine condor were about the lower sheep
carcass, one of which was a young ringed necked condor.
This young condor seemed to enjoy unusual freedom
among the other condor when feeding. At one time
two adult condor and this immature ringed-neck condor
were all around the lower sheep carcass together. When
this ringed-necked immature fed on the carcass none of the
adult condor attacked it; but when one of the adult
condor fed on the carcass other adult condor would jump at
it in a menacing way. Once when a golden eagle came in
and lit on the carcass it flew down towards the young ring-neck
condor that stood about six feet below. The young condor
did not run nor fly away, and even moved towards the -