California Condor Ben McMillan 18 February 1964 the surface of the ground then take off into the air again without flapping its wings either in alighting or leaving. The objects it picked up from time to time appeared to be light in weight and when carried aloft for one-hundred feet or so and dropped would fall to the earth rather slowly. These objects were probably dried Cow dung. The young eagle gambol ed about on the wind repeating this dropping down to pick up an object and carry it aloft where it would be dropped for five minutes before moving on northward and out of sight. At 5:15 p.m. an adult Golden Eagle was observed making three buptial dives out over the center of Hopper Canyon Northwest of the Percy ranch home. At 5:16 p.m. a Pigeon Hawk, coming from the Southwest, passed above me on Soda-sulphur ridge only a few feet away. This bird continued on up Hopper Canyon, quite high, into the strong wind. The sun set clear and somewhat on the calm side as the east wind died down to a strong breeze at sunset. The air was sharp with little haze or smog.