California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eben McMillan 22 april 1964 ago a car load of elderly ladies came to his station for a new tire. This tire was to replace one that had gone flat on their Car while they were watching for Condor along the roadside east of Arvin. These ladies were somewhat discouraged as not having seen a Condor but felt better when Mr. Borce told them of his not having seen one in 20 years of living in Arvin. I drove to the home of Jack Tanzen who works for the Tejon Ranch and lives in one of their houses about one mile east of Arvin. I have been misspelling Mr. Tanzen's name in referring to him formally in this study, a thinking, his name was spelled Tentsen. Jack Tanzen had seen Three Condor on March 23, 1964 at 1:00 p.m., while he and another fellow were mending a barbed-wire fence on the Sheep Trail Grade about three miles SE of Arvin and about ½ mile up the grade from the down bottom of the Mountain — He said the three Condor circled above them for some minutes and were close enough at times so that he could have killed one of them with a rifle had he been shooting at them and been able to hit it. Mr. Tanzen did not notice which direction the Condor left the area when they passed from sight. Mrs. Tanzen told me of a man and his son coming to her home about three weeks ago and asking for permission to go onto Tejon Ranch lands in order to look for Condor. They told her they had seen Condor in the White-Wolf area a week before. They told her they were from the Audubon Society—