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California Condor
Eben McMillan
11 May 1964
Case when these birds are manipulating cross currents. The
action was very much like a human being swimming in the
surf of the ocean. After loafing above me for about
30 seconds this adult Condor went into the flex glide
and moved on down the ridge and when last seen
as a dim speck at 2:04 P.M., was moving south
somewhere in the Neighborhood of Cholame, Calif. I feel
sure this was the same Condor that fed with the
immature bird on the offall of the sheep I placed out
North one-quarter mile of the foot of Kerr Grade
after Noon yesterday. I also feel quite sure that the
young bird that was present this morning was the
same Spot-in-Wing-bird as was about yesterday.
The Phelps, Ken McMillan, and a all visited with Gene
Rambo at his home in the afternoon. Gene said that
he had brought two of the Calf Carcasses, that had
died from malnutrition on Cholame flats, home to his
dogs for food. The dogs would not eat these Calf
Carcasses.
This morning I chopped open the rib Cage of
a @ Calf that had been been dead about two days.
It smelled similar to the gas that comes from a
mud-hole when a horse walks through slumud,
No Turkey vultures-Raven, Eagles or Condor came
to feed on this Carcass today even though I had
seen a Golden Eagle sitting near it before I opened
it up with hatchet.