California Condor Eben McMillan 14 June 1964 Mr. John Minton, with our putting greetings, salutations and several photographs taken of him and his motorcycle, took his leave of the Big Pine lookout at 1:20 p.m. after walking to the lookout tower in quest of water at finding no water. Present he, without even glancing out over the scalp to get a view of his surroundings, took off in a cloud of dust for OSD and the Santa Ynez river. Ian + I watched the area for the remainder of the afternoon. We drove to Alamant Saddle and camped for the night at 6:30 p.m. The day remained clear but the wind went down in mid- morning and it became quite warm by afternoon. It was warm when we retired to our bunks at 8:00 p.m. A list of the birds he observed on Big Pine Mt. is as follows. Golden Eagle - adult - one ---- Red-Tailed Hawk - adult, two ---- Raven - two ---- Sparrow hawk - two ---- Stellers Jays - many ---- Calif. Scrub Jay - many ---- White-Headed Woodpecker - one ---- Hairy Woodpecker - one ---- Downy Woodpecker - one ---- Red-shafted Flicker ---- Mt. Quail - many ---- Calif. Quail - three ---- ---- White Throated Swift - many ---- Purple Martin - many ---- ---- Violet Green Swallow - many ---- Cliff Swallow - a few ---- ---- Fox Sparrow, common ---- Chipping Sparrow - common ---- Black-chinned Sparrow, common ---- Rufus Sided Towhee - common ---- ---- Brown Tailed - many ---- Common Goldfinch - few ---- ---- House Finch - Common ---- Purple Finch - Common ---- ---- Wren Tit, Common ---- Black-headed Grosbeak, Common ---- Western Tanager, Common ---- Oregon Junco, Common ---- ---- Junco? few ---- Golden Crowned Kinglet, two ----