California condor survey field notes, v1477
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apache saddle 883 California Condor Eben McMullin 11 September 1964 Tom Ingersall, employee of U.S. Forest Service who is camped at Apache Saddle Saddle between Abel and Brush mountains Kern Co., described to us and showed us a photograph of, the flock of 20 Condor that he and aa his brother observed on the San Emidio Ridge that runs southeast from Brush Mountain. The black and white photo he showed us included 5 specks that undoubtedly were Condor. These Condor were seen on August 18, 1962. Two representatives of the U.S. Forest Service who had 8 Condor - gone on top of Mt. Abel on 18 August 1964 to check on lightning strikes of the previous night, Saw 8 Condor that circled low over them, I am will be getting this report from the Forest Service. Tom Ingersall mentioned that a new directive had just come to his attention that now makes it imperative that all Condor sightings be turned in immediately following the incident and not be held to the end of the year and be turned in with an annual report as has been the case in the past. Tom Ingersall had heard that Bert Shedden had seen 20 Condor sometime in the past several years. Even though Tom Ingersall is a well acquainted with Bob Fischer, Game warden from Tift, he had never been told of the Dead Condor Carcass behind hill Potvero, by him, Peter Nigh, employee of the U.S. Forest Service who is camped at Apache Saddle described how he had been—