California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eben McNillan 10 June 1964 food Poison squirrels once in several years. christie) I was given the San Francisco address of Mr. Lyle Christie by Mrs. Jones who thought Mr. Christie would be most happy to help me out in any way he could. She also said she would have Mr. Jones write me should he have seen any Condor on the Cantua Ranch. I left my address and phone number with Mrs. Jones with instruction for them to phone me collect should anyone see Condor, in the future, or particularly find a dead or wounded Condor. I drove down Cantua Creek at 1:30 p.m. to highway 33. Another Golden Eagle was observed crossing the highway in front of me soon after the highway enters the foothills, going south from Cantua Creek. I did not see it well enough to see if it was an adult or immature. ad Buzzard) A dead Turkey Buzzard carcass was found lying on north side of highway 33, about ten feet from the edge of Panement, 1/2 mile Northwest of Avenal, Fresno County, Calif. Evidently this buzzard had been shot, for a buzzard feather lay near the partly eaten body of a kit fox about 100 feet north of where the Buzzard carcass lay. Automobile tracks indicated that someone had pulled to the side of the highway, while the buzzard was feeding on the kit fox and shot the Buzzard. The person then walked to the Buzzard and dragged it back to the roadside, evidently to admire the good shot, and there the Buzzard carcass was left. This appeared to