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Gymnogyps californianus
April 1, 1946 Fillmore, Cal.
were much preferred to coyote, Shelby said. He
said that normally ever buzzards would not
eat coyote carcasses. His impression was that
the condors liked carcasses, a little smelly rather
than fresh. At one time in late spring he said
he saw 26 over his scrap pile - mostly in the
air - and took pictures of them with an 8mm.
movie camera. He gave the film away with the
camera & projector when he sold it, he said. Once
a horse was put out for bait & Bawland hid in
a blind nearby - the condors paid no apparent
attention to the bait. Greenwald said that he
saw 19 condors over Libre Mtn. in (19?) &
that deer hunters were shooting at them.
He said he saw one in a tree in San Luis Canyon
near Fallbrook or Palas in 1938 (San Diego Co.).
Neither warden professed to know much of
condors. Both are about 35 years old & fairly
intelligent. Shelby said that he was impressed
with the condor's keen eyesight as shown by
the fact that often when he was at the foot of
the grade looking up at Honey Ridge he saw
no condors up there, yet by the time he got
to the ridge top there would be from 2 to
36-7.6 birds. He had seen not over 6 or 8
on the ground, feeding, at one time, he said.