California Condor Eben McMillan 5 January 1963 especially when the Santa Ana winds are blowing off the desert. They also seem to be less circling now and to loop at a lower elevation when traveling out any distance Between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. we remained sitting on the East slope of Hopper Mountain about 300 yards from its top. On several occasions we saw one-two-or three condor circling north east of our position in the general area of Upper Hopper Canyon. These condor could have all been members of the three, of the originalive condor we saw circling below us in the bottom of the canyon at 8:45 a.m. At 11:00 a.m. two condor, one of which was a spot little wing bird flew Northward directly above us and circled for a few minutes north of us about ½ mile before flying out towards the hole-in-the-wall area. These two condor, like all others we watched this morning did not seem to be going anywhere in particular, but rather just flying around. At 11:15 we drove to the Percy home where we stopped to chat with Mr. and Mrs. Percy. At 12:00 Noon as we were standing in front of the Percy home talking to Mr. Percy Two condor were seen flying Northward slowly West of where we were about ½ mile. About two minutes later we saw two other condor following on the same course as the two seen a few minutes before but perhaps two hundred feet higher in the air. At 12:15 p.m. while still in front of the Percy home we saw 8 adult condor circling above the general area of the Corrals where we camped last night and which was also in the general area where two carcasses of dead cattle were lying. These Eight Condor circled for several minutes