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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