Hi Notes

My trip to Hi Mountain on Wed. Jan 15, 2003 was quiet as far as Condor signals were concerned. The big birds are staying in Ventana where they belong…boring for us, good for them! I arrived at the lookout at about 0845 and it was freezing! The wind was blowing 30 mph from the north and, with the wind chill, it was 26 degrees. It was a bit foggy and there was not much visibility except to the west where...

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Hi notes

The Condors are still shunning Atascadero, so as far as monitoring goes, it’s pretty quiet on Hi Mountain. I arrived at the lookout at 0830 Wed. Jan 8 and picked up no signals all day. It was sunny and warm in the morning and got cooler as the day progressed. There was a lot of bird activity: Calif. Thrashers, Spotted and Calif. Towhees, a flock of American and Lesser Goldfinches, Golden Crowned...

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Hi notes

If you just got a blank message from me…sorry! I composed a message and then went to the help screen and apparently lost the message. I was trying to find ’spell check’…if anyone knows how to access it, let me know! In the meantime, please excuse any typos I don’t catch!. So here goes again… The road to Hi Mountain was finally opened at about noon Friday 1/3/03. I navigated the river crossing in...

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Saturday

Today, 1/04/02, I spent half the day at Hi Mountain lookout, with good views to the coast of Point Sal and Point Arguello and inland to the snow-covered southern Sierras. All afternoon a sustained wind more than 20mph blew from the north. Red-tailed hawks and turkey vultures occasionally sailed by. The weather station recorded about 6 inches of rain during the month of December and a maximum wind...

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