California Condor Eben McMillan 30 april 1964 I camped in a canyon east of little Oak Canyon last night. The wind blew a gale all night long and is continuing on unabated. Evidently this is a prevailing Spring Condition for I notice the Oaks in Canada Del Secretario, Little Baldy and Cottonwood Canyons all leaning downhill as though experiencing considerable Pressure from downhill winds, while the Pines on the upper ridges also have given way to the pressure of this wind. This could be a factor in the shortage of large birds On this side of the Tehachapi Mts. For today, a turkey Buzzard I saw in Canada Del Secretario Canyon, at 10:00 A.M., was literally blown out of this canyon, into the desert. I doubt that Condor would be able to maneuver in this downward blast. They do well in Currents as strong as this in the Sapse, but these are uphill winds on which the Condor can sit for any length of time it chooses. There is nothing like that here. I drove over Tehachapi Range in afternoon through the White Oak Lodge. Mateo Amundarain, an aged Basque Shepherd, who has been in America forty-three years, was camped with his flock, among the Oaks, past, White Wolf lodge. Mateo told me he had seen no Condor of late in the Tehachapi Mountains. That two of his sheep had died or been killed by Coyotes, even though he lets them spend the nights on a brush covered hillside to the east of his Camp about one quarter mile. Mateo does not think that Coyotes