californiA condor Eben McMillan 18 May 1964 Arrived on cholame flats at 10:05 A.M. A fairly brisk east wind was blowing and the sky was streaked with the contrails of aeroplanes and a thin layer of moderately high cirro- cumulus clouds dimmed the sunlight. At 10:15 A.M. six Turkey vultures were sailing about the point on the southside of the canyon that empties into cholame flats about one-quarter mile south of Gene Rumbo barn. Three of these vultures alighted on a dead snag on this point but two lit on the ground, nor did those that lit on the dead Oak snag remain perched long, but were soon back on the wing. Two antlerless deer ran from the grove of oak trees on north side of ridge that runs up northwest about Three-eights of a mile north of the foot of Kerr Grade. Why deer would be on the overgrazed lands of Cholame Rancho when the Spring Ranch of Avenales Cattle Company is only a mile away where forage is plentiful seems strange to me. As I sat watching these two deer running up the ridge seven Turkey vultures came and circled near where I was located near the foot of this ridge at 10:30 A.M. A pair of Red Tailed Hawks also wheeled above me a few moments after the Turkey vultures had moved on, and a rather bedraggled appearing Prairie Falcon also came by and circled above where I stood. I was walking about on the ridge referred to above when the birds aforementioned circled above me. It seems that a human on foot creates a curiosity in large birds that -