Ford 3055 Gymnogyps californianus May 3, 1976 Nv. Famoso, Calif. After the poison crew, Joe said, & buzzards too. He has seen buzzards eat dried up carcasses 2 or 3 weeks old, however. His opinion of takeoff distance was about 30 ft., but he said the wings were held out & not flapped during the takeoff run (wrong!). Joe said condor seemed to wait 5 or 10 minutes after landing before commencing to eat as if not noticing the food - I believe Joe got this idea from his blind experience. He said the condor - about 70' away - did not seem to mind the camera click. Both condors & buzzards seem to prefer fresh meat, Joe said. One of his photos shows adult cado with one foot on squirrel or rabbit & pulling with bill. Condors are more wary than buzzards, Joe believes. Joe thought he had heard of one being reported found dead in a horse trough a few years ago but couldn't recall where he had heard the story. Joe had never seen condors on the N. side of San Joaquin Valley. Fox said that the whole Santa Maria Valley had been poisoned & that work was being done near Lathrop Flats too. Back on O Finas Bradshaw, who gave me some condor tips before, now works near Annette. One county man said a man named Douglas working in the Tejon foothills near El Pozo Creek, reported seeing 3 condors one day & 2 the next about a week ago (may not know condors, the informant thought). There were many buzzards about 2 miles E. of Kern Co. Park where