California condor survey field notes, v1477
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california condor Eben McNillan 27 January 1964 At 10:15 A.M. we stopped to interview three men who were repairing the County Road that goes from Woody to Famosa. Richard Kambricks, one of these men, who lives in Glenville, knows Condor, and has seen them many times. He thinks this is a bit early to see Condor in the Granite Station area. He thinks Condor came into this area in the springtime. Mr. Kambrick said he saw 34 Condor about four years ago at the foot of Battleshulee Grade in the Rancheria area at the southwest end of Greenhorn Mountain. After questioning him concerning the seeing of the 34 Condor he then said it was some number about that figure. Kambricks thought the Rancheria area the best place to see Condor with the hills below Granite Station running a close second. Darrell Degler, another one of the men working on the County Road here, and who also lives in Glenville, said he saw two Condor last year in the valley below Granite Station where Carl West lives. Mr. Degler also knows Condor and has seen them off and on over the years in the Granite Station. A. Mr. Cresio Driver was the third member of this trio who work at maintaining the roads in this area for Kern County and all live in Glenville. They will all be on the lookout for Condor and leave word with Mrs. Evalyn Jansworth should they see anything unusual. We then stopped at the home of Mrs. Russell Lawrence Moore that is located near the road in the area where the Poso Creek Oilfield crosses the Woody-Famosa Roadway, Mrs. Moore immediately informed me that she knew Condor very well and that her husband had seen Condor to the west of -