California condor survey field notes, v1477
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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.