california Condor Eben McMillan 26 January 1964 The Hopper Rim area and circled briefly about the north top of Hopper mountain. This Condor had a gap in the right wing one- quarter way out from the body to the tip of wing. This Condor, after circling briefly went into a long glide that carried it out to the southward several miles to what I thought would be about over the promontory that stands at the mouth of Hopper Canyon, on the west side, and extends out from the main foothills to the east of the town of Fillmore. When this Condor reached, what I thought, was this point, it reversed its course and came back towards Hopper Mountain for a mile or so, to what appeared to me to be a spot about over [illegible] Pass, where the Percy Ranch Road crosses from Tom's Canyon, or Little Hopper Canyon, as I have mistakenly been calling it, into Hopper Canyon drainage again, before passing into the Soda Creek drainage where the Percy home is located, and which is a drainage into the main Hopper Canyon. The Condor, after reaching this point, circled upward gaining considerable elevation, after which it again turned southward, and without varying from its course, sailed back over the promontory west of the mouth of Hopper Canyon continuing on across the Santa Clara valley and was finally lost from sight as it dipped below the blue timeline of Wiley Canyon, and Dale Ridge, that is south and east of Fillmore about 4 or 5 miles. This Condor was last seen at 11:17 A.m. At 11:31 A.m., a Condor was seen circling above the headwaters of Tom's Canyon about two miles west, or west by southwest, of the Percy Ranch home. After gaining considerable altitude this Condor moved slowly up the ridge, passed across the upper east face of Hopper mountain from where it moved out eastward and downward and was lost from sight—