Sept 25-26, 2003

Hi folks, A little late on this posting, but some good stuff happened during the2nd half of my stay at the Lookout last week.Temps were mostly high and the breeze slight throughout the week. Lotsof helicopter activity on the south and east slopes of Hi mt. asauthorities continue to search for the Trout Creek pot farmers. Now on to the good stuff…… On thursday September 25 at 1532hrs, condor B-168...

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Notes from the Lokout Sept 24, 2003

Greetings all,This is a wireless transmission from the Hi Mtn. Lookout on WednesdaySeptember 24, 2003 at 2150hrs. Been enjoying the Lookout for the last 2 days. Very hot and stillyesterday. Today the coastal fog penetrated inland valleys andpersisted throughout the early afternoon, cloaking the world aroundme in a thick shroud to about 2500 feet. Quite a sight and some nicerelief from the heat....

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field trip 9/20/03

Today I taught a class at Cuesta College for Community Programs entitled“Condor Country”, a short course offered for the first time (in the morethan 10 years that I have been teaching a yearly series of naturalhistory lectures and leading field trips through the college). After aclassroom slide lecture about condor biology and the California CondorRecovery Program/Hi Mtn. Project, I drove the van...

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Condor off Hwy 46

This morning at about 8:30 I decided to try to drive to Villa Creekto check out some sandpipers and whatnot. I had the telonicsreceiver from yesterday afternoon’s search for California CondorY213, It was strange that the bird just seemed to disappear yesterdayafternoon with neither Holly at Hi Mountain or myself able to pick upa signal from the bird after narrowing its location down to theAtascadero/Creston...

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Hi Notes

Notes from 9/1/03: Picked up 7 birds, total. Here are just thehighlights: The most noteable was AC9. As most of you know, he is thelegendary bird who was the last wild Condor to be taken intocaptivity in the 1980s. He hails from Hopper Mt., and made only abrief trip up our way. Maybe he was escorting the other 3 Hopper Mt.birds, plus the 3 Ventana birds. All signals were coming from thesame general...

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Sept. 5-7, 2003 - A bear of a time

Hey everyone, For a change this week, to cover for Lisa who was going on vacation,I staffed the lookout for the first weekend in September. I had agreat time on Friday with Paul who had been at the lookout sinceThursday morning. With no Condors for the last few days we spentmost of the day trying to identify many of the different namedmountains in the area using various maps. We finally picked...

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