California Condor Eben McMillan 13 February 1964 Known as Fibber McGee, and Molly, in the entertainment world. Mr. Kinney was managing this ranch for the Jordans at that time. At 4:15 p.m. I drove to Ranch headquarters of San Emigdio Ranch. Eight Turkey Buzzards were circling above the tops of the Eucalyptus trees that line the driveway entering the ranch yard. These birds later settled in the top of one of those tall trees about Sunset. I met Smokey Snyder, another San Emigdio employee who had been working for the last two weeks in the mountain area south of the Ranch headquarters. He said that large birds can be seen most times during the day in the back country of the San Emigdio property, he advised me to go into Plietito Canyon tomorrow and see if there were not condor there. At dusk, an immature Golden Eagle was observed perched atop a Russian Thistle bush that had been turned topside-down. I stopped the car within one hundred feet of this Eagle and watched it for about a minute before it flew, heavily, to the foothills one-quarter mile south and landed on a gentle slope of the hills. I drove on and camped for the night near the mouth of Plietito Canyon.