California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eben McMillan 23 April 1964 Calves quit coming. This he thought might have some bearing on why condors were not being seen on Tejon. The lower foothills and on out on the flats of Tejon Ranch was all dried grass, but from the level of the Old Ranch Headquarters on up the mountain grasses were still green and plentiful. I drove to a point on road that overlooks the old Tejon Ranch and the country below. I took several photographs here. While photographing I saw an Eagle (Eagle Nest- (Golden) coming around the hillside below me and across a canyon and drop from sight behind a hill. Walking out on the Promontory, on which I had parked, I looked down into the Canyon into where the Eagle had gone out of sight. I then saw an Eagle dropping down Canyon and going away from me as well as leaving an area where several blue Oak trees were standing. Thinking this Eagles movements unusual I drove back down the grade to where I could look into the above mentioned Oaks with the glasses. Here I found out One Young Eagle, about three weeks old, on a nest in the upper third of one of these Oaks that stood below and about 700 yards from the roadway. No doubt the Cowboys, who had ridden past this area after I had talked to them had frightened the adult Eagle from the nest to which it was returning when I first saw it. After watching the young Eagle staggering about on the Nest for several minutes, I left the area for Frazier Park. At Chuchupate Ranger Station, in Cuddy Canyon, I