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Gymnogyps californianus
March 19, 1946 Hopper Canyon, Cal?
Drove up Pale Canyon & arrived at Pyr-
amid Lookout on Hopper Rim at 2:45. Sky
56°F.
clear, faint SW breeze, 66° F. There was
light snow in a few protected spots on the
road near Hopper Mtn., some on the ridge W.
of Calico Stone Mtn., & much in the Tehachapi
Mountains
Mtn - Mt. Sierra area in the distance. Branches
& leaves in the road evidenced that the same
wind of last night reached the Hopper Mtn.
level. I searched the usual perch points
with telescope & found one condor sprawled
flat in a pothole in sunshine above Big Crev.
No birds were evident in the area of the
carcass
horse carcass (not visible from Pyramid
lookout). 3 p.m., I saw one condor near White-
acres Rk. apparently gliding toward the Agua Blanca.
some
3:03, the bird over Big Cave standing in pothole, look
to see (I conjecture that this bird probably
an immature). This bird came at 3:15. Water vis-
ible at Condor Falls, the first falls below Big Cave.
The sand atop Big Cave appears wet from the storm
of yesterday - perhaps there is now water there
available to condors. 3:48 - two more condors
above Big Cave (3 total) on Whitewash Ridge.
3:50, the pothole one & another off - soaring
close to Condor Cliff, & 30 sec. later the bird