California Condor Eben McMillan 2 may 1964 This morning was overcast and threatening rain. By 11:00 A.M. the threat of rain had passed somewhat but it was still cloody with patches of blue showing. At 10:30 A.M. Gregory McMillan came home from helping Adam Grant ship his cattle. He told me of seeing Turkey Buzzards feeding on a dead sheep on hillside behind Adam Grant home after which I advised him to return to this location and see if he could load the sheep carcass into the pickup so that we could use it as condor bait on the Cholame flats. This he promptly did but soon returned with the information that the sheep carcass was pretty messy having been opened up by the buzzards and ravens that were feeding on it. Condor At 11:30 A.M. Gladys spotted an adult condor circling about one-quarter mile south of our house. I glanced out my bedroom window to which I was confined with the flu and believed her observation. This condor soon moved on south. At 12:30 Gregory McMillan drove, via back way, to area where sheep carcass was on Adam Grant property. Here he found six condor feeding in company with about two dozen Ravens and 7 or 8 Buzzards. The condor, though showing some fear when he first approached, returned to the carcass to feed and allowed him to take shots of them with the telephoto lens. Gregory left the condor, Buzzards and Ravens all fighting and feeding and returned to the house at 12:45 P.M. Whereupon he was joined by his mother on a return trip to try for