Field notes, v1400
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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.