748 Big Pine Mountain Cuyama California Condor Eben McMullen 13 June 1964 food Jan came at 6:00 A.M. We loaded the carcass of a young doe deer, that had died near our water tank last night with its head caught in the hog-wire fence, into his pickup and left for Big Pine Mountain. In the Carrisa plains, near Washborn Ranch, at roadside, we found the dried carcass and feathers of a small hawk that we felt had been shot some distance out in the field and then carried to the roadside where it had been left. This idea was gained from our finding a pile of this bird's feathers some distance from the road. We left the hawk remains there. A Prairie Falcon with one wing damaged to the point of preventing this bird from flying was found in the roadway 2 mile south of the Whimm Ranch road on Carrisa plains. A bullet or some sharp object had caused an abrasion on the upper part of the left wing that seemed to have left the muscles damaged. This bird was not more than a month from the nest. It was placed in a cardboard box and taken along in the hopes that we would be able to contact some fish and game warden who would see that it was cared for until able to feed for itself again. Stopping at Cuyama Ranger Station of U.S. Forest Service, we obtained the needed keys to go into Big Pine Mountain. Mr. Ed Morse was not in the office having gone, we were told, to Sierra Madre Ridge with a Richfield Oil Company group, to work on a water development. Stopping at the Standard Service Station in Cuyama (Cold) Jan grazed up his pickup—While here the Station attendant told us that Lamar: