california condor eben mcmillan 24 april 1964 A light frost was evident this morning at sunrise. A cool north wind blew and a few clouds were visible in the east as 9am and I left for the Cuyama Valley at 7:30 A.M. Crops on the west side of Carrisa plains northwest of Simmler looks fair, but the east side of the plains seems doomed. At 9:30 A.M. a LeConte Thrasher flew across the roadway about one and one-half mile northwest of the Dewey Welling Ranch. At 9:45 six Buzzards were flushed from the Carcasses of two Badgers that had been shot about a week before about one-quarter mile west of the south end of Soda Lake. Three Ravens were also feeding on the Badger Carcasses. The Buzzards and Ravens flew off towards the east. At 10:15 A.M. we stopped to talk with two County Road maintenance men and a Cowboy working for Marcus Rudnick near the south end of the plains. These men all said they [illegible] had never seen Condor. One of the road men said that about five years ago, on a lake near Gallup, New Mexico, he and his wife were rowing out to fish one morning when they saw something resembling another boat on the lake. Knowing no other boat was supposed to be on this lake this man and his wife towed towards this object. When they approached withing [illegible] seeing distance this object turned out to be a large bird, that upon seeing them rose from the water with great flapping of wings and hitting the water with its feet in setting momentum, then after becoming -