californis Condor then Mcmillan 24 april 1964 The birds that form the Buzzard roost here at [illegible] Driving on over the Tehachapi, via Pale Creek Pass, I Turned west along L.A. water aqueduct road that proceeds along foothills on east slope of Tehachapi mountains. I had stopped and cooked my supper and was again proceeding along the rutted, winding and sandy roadway when a flock of 25 plus Vaux swift caught up to me and proceeded to move on past me on my left. A fairly strong west wind was blowing that seemed to present some problem to these birds. I sped up to 30 [illegible] miles per hour and at this speed was able to stay even with these birds that remained near the roadway and at times crossed over in front of me. After pacing the swifts along this roadway for about one mile I lost them as I entered Cottonwood canyon. I was surprised at the westward course of these swifts, in fact their course along this aqueduct road was more or less on a southwest course but the birds kept moving across to my right seeming to be tending to move a bit more westward. These swift remained close to the ground when flying and were averaging about 30 mph. in ground speed. I stopped at the West Antelope Aqueduct Station of L.A. Water and Light in Cottonwood Canyon where Mr. Miller, whose [illegible] automobile it was that had been shot up on two separate instances, while being left parked at the roadside at end of Rosemond Boulevard, where he had been leaving this car while catching the high school bus on his way to Rosamond. Mr. Miller was home and was most willing to discuss the car shooting incident. He told me