California condor survey field notes, v1477
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check Mr. Morris Secretary's name Anyama California Condor Eben McMillan 24 april 1964 was over-run with Stranded campers. It seems that a very heavy snow fall at the higher elevations and the weather turned quite cold. One man froze to death who with his companion, had become stalled on their [illegible] Bikes and in trying to walk out the one had become exhausted and being left by his partner who went on ahead for help, was found frozen stiff when help came for him early the next morning. Ranger Morse stated that the lookout on McPherson Peak had observed few if any Condor last year. He thought the Condor movement pattern had shifted so that old established flight [illegible] routes were no longer being used. He thought this showed up in the numerous sightings from Coyama Peak Lookout last year. Ranger Morse evidently had formally recorded two nesting observations of Condor, one of which came from Helen Theirs who is secretary to Mr. Morse. She said that a Condor Nest site was on the east side of the Coyama valley across from where she likes near the mouth of Tinta Canyon. The absurdity of this statement demanded no further discussion of the matter in order to save this lady from embarrassment. We got keys from Ranger Morse in order to go to Big Pine Mountain and left Coyama at 12:10 p.m. We drove west from Coyama and then took foothill road that runs south through farm fields, stopping at length with the shepherd Julian who was camped about one mile west of Old Coyama, and who told us of seeing four Condor feeding on a dead sheep about one mile to the northwest of where he now camped and about ten days or two weeks ago. He pointed out the place where he had been camped at the time he saw the four Condor and told us -