California Condor Eben Mcmillan 7 January 1964 Ian, Brooks Atkinson and I left for Fillmore at 6:00 A.M. in my pickup. We passed the southern end of Soda Lake at 6:30 A.M. just as about 800 Sandhill Cranes flew out from the lake heading southwest. These cranes passed over us and immediately set their wings to a glide lowering as they went and appeared to be dropping in the grain stubble of the American Ranch about 1/2 mile S.W. of where we were parked. This population is much less than the number of birds we saw here on December 7, 1963. Arriving in Cuyama Valley at 7:45 A.M., we chatted with two shepherds who were attending sheep on alfalfa about one mile south of west end of Cuyama River Bridge (the one east of Cuyama). Neither of these shepherds had seen Condor this winter. Turning off the Cuyama-Ventura highway, as it passes over Pine Mountain Pass into the Sespe River drainage, to the eastward, we drove to Pine Mountain Public Camp and reviewed the shot-up signs etc. The out-houses (toilets) had been removed from this camp. These were what Ian wanted Mr. Atkinson to see as one of them had over forty bullet holes in it. The purpose of this side trip was to see what further damage had been done since deer season. We thought that but few people had used this camp since the first two weekends of the deer season, 1963. One sign appeared to have been badly mutilated with bullet holes since that time. We next stopped for lunch at the Public Park on the hill between Ojai and Santa Paula. We saw a White-tailed Kite circling about 1/4 mile south of this camp. Stopping for gasoline at the Union Oil Co. Station in Fillmore at 1:15 P.M., the attendant there told me that Condor are seen about the town on occasion but that [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]