california Condor Eben McMillan 24 april 1964 another shepherd was camped there now with a flock of sheep. We ate our lunch in Julians Trailer-house after which we drove to shepherds camp at which place Julian had seen the four Condor. The shepherd at this camp was a Basque who had been in this country and mexico for the last forty years. He had herded Sheep in central California a good deal but had never seen Condor to know them. He said that Coyotes had never been much of a problem to sheep he had herded in California nor in Nevada where he had also put in several seasons herding sheep. Also, he had Never been in an area where Eagles had bothered sheep. He did say that on many occasions he had seen old, or sick, ewes lie down and be attacked by Ravens that would pick the eyes of the old, or sick, ewe causing her to go blind. Otherwise he had not been bothered with predators among any of the flocks of sheep he had herded. This old shepherd also stated that the winters in Nevada, being so cold at times that the thermometer would get down to minus ten or fifteen degrees, still did not seem as cold to him as did the winters here in the Coyama Valley. He also said he would be on the lookout for Condor now that he knew they were in this area. we passed up at Old Coyama and then drove up Santa Barbara canyon and out along ridge road to Alamar Guard Station where we looked over the facilities for Camping there Tonight, they drove on towards Big Pine mountain for a distance of about a mile where we were prevented from going further by hard banks of snow that covered the road in protected -