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Frazier Int.
Bakersfield
Tejon Ranch
CALIFORNIA CONDOR Eben McMillan 1 october 1964
was used and also the poundage used in 1958-59-60-61-62 and 1963.
In evening we drove to old Tejon Ranch headquarters and rechecked
condor observations with Gib McKenzie. I commenced my
questioning with McKenzie by informing him that I had not
made specific notations on the observation he had made of 31
condor in 1962 near the Tejon Ranch. I did not mention the number
of 31 condor he had reported to me but rather mentioned his having
told me of somewhere 28 or 30 condor having been seen. To this
question Mr. McKenzie said, "No it was 31 condor I saw that time".
"They were feeding on a carcass down behind the Gum Tree grove," and he pointed to this area from where we were standing. Mr.
McKenzie could not recall the name of the fellow who was with
him at the time but the man is no longer at Tejon Ranch.
Gib McKenzie also reviewed the information he had previously given
me regarding his sighting of Two dead condor that lay near the
water of Tunis Canyon. One of these condor carcasses was found
since 1960.
Gib McKenzie also told me of having come suddenly upon 7 or 8
condor in the foothills, that had gorged themselves on the putrid
carcass of a cow that had died. As he approached these condor,
quickly they all dashed about and, while leaving the ground
and before getting well into the air, regurgitated up large amounts
of the meat they had consumed. He said the meat was falling
in good sized chunks on the ground.