California condor survey field notes, v1477
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Granite Station 601 California Condor Eben McMillan 29 February 1964 the hill came and joined the three circling south of the hill top, then drove to this area where Mrs. Farnsworth had seen the Condor on 26 February and went to the home of Edna Williams, seeing a Golden Eagle circling the South Top at Round Hill as I turned off the main road, Edna Williams had seen, not heard of, no Condor. I also visited at the home of Jim Ben and Nona Williams. They had not seen Condor but late although they had heard of Frank Stockton seeing Condor in the Granite Station area on 12 and 13 February 1964. (See letter from Frank Stockton dated Feb. 13-1964). Jim Ben Williams thought that the long dry spell that had matured most of the grass on the south facing exposures in the Granite Station area had created a situation whereby more rain now would do little good in the lowlands although benefiting the forage grasses a great deal at the higher elevations where the summer range was still mostly frozen over and would commence to grow soon now with the coming of warmer weather. I left the Granite Station area at 3:00 p.m. heading west. Stopping at the home of Mrs. Moore, that is near the Woody, Famosa, road. She nor her husband had seen, nor heard, of Condor. They had noticed that Buzzards were in about a week early having come by their area about 12 February instead of the usual arrival date of February 19th that Mrs. Moore claimed is the usual return date of Buzzards to her...