Field notes, v1400
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Gymnogyps californianus March 23, 1946 Big Sespe Canyon, Calif. much whitewashed points on next to top ledge of the high sandstone bluffs to E. of Sespe River about 1/2 mile below Tar Creek at 500 to 700 ft. above creek bed. As we watched one took off & rounded the top corner of the bluff 1/4 mile downstream (could not spot it later from further downstream). The other then took off, circled, & again alighted at same point. The whitewash here appears old & yellowed - because of protected nature of the points the web experiment remains. We con- tinued on to our car at Van Tree's gate (arrived 6:35). Sid Peyton told me he had seen a young crows fed in about May, at about the same place we saw the adults at 5 p.m. but 100+ ft. lower on the cliff. The adult had flown in & perched & the imm. followed, then was fed. Sid saw the feeding another time too. Met game warden Shobley on the road - he hauled me down with siren & red light think- ing I was a fish poacher. He said that when he put carcasses out on the ridge S. of Fill- more about 3 years ago he got as many as 26 crows there & got pictures of them with an 8 mm. camera. He said the crows ate Bob cats but not the coyotes he put out. He lives