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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