California Condor Eben McMillan 26 February 1964 It was cold throughout the night - The east wind that blew in Gusts was quite strong at times but not of gale force. The sky was clear at sunrise and a minimum of smog lay in the Los Angeles basin. A Red-Tailed Hawk was hunting on the upper east face of Hopper Mountain at sunrise. About 8:00 AM, an immature Golden Eagle drifted down from top of Hopper Mountain, circled above our camp briefly before leaving southward. Eagle At 9:05 AM, an adult Golden Eagle came around hill from the south, on a level with our camp, hunting, and seeing me standing by the pickup, veered upward and turning downhill moved out to the southeast, but did not seem to notice the carcass of the deer we put out on the ridge above the road where it comes around point from Soda Creek. We also put out one more Jackrabbit here and two cottontails. 9:25 two Ravens hunting above southeast top of Hopper Mountain. A group of Crows were in the trees just below our camp, but never ventured into the air very high nor were they seen out on the open grasslands. At this same time the twittering nuptial call of Sparrowhawk was heard in the Big One Spruce tree northeast of our camp and a flicker whistled from the canyon below. Eagle At 9:27 an immature Golden Eagle hovered for a few moments over the southeast face of upper Hopper Mountain before diving out of sight into Soda Canyon. Hawks Red Tailed Hawks have been in sight most of the morning, chasing one another at great speeds all along the eastern slope-