Field notes, v1400
Page 205
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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