California
Condors
(a.k.a. Numbers 3, 22 and 5)
August 26, 2008 / Big Sur, California
I saw these rare California Condors in the cliffs
alongside
Highway One, north of Andrew Molera State Park, about a month after the
wildfires. They were tagged,
I believe, by the captive breeding program people.
The
California Condor is the largest flying bird in North America with a
wingspan of over 9 feet. Their average life span in the
wild is 60 years. There are only 200-300 California Condors alive
today, including those flying free and in captive breeding
programs. Lead poisoning from lead bullets is
killing many of them. Please support the movement to ban lead
bullets:
For more information,
see: California Condor Conservation
After having lunch, Number 3, Mom we presume,
flies up to the cliffs above the beach to digest for a while.

She's so graceful



I've been told that the lump in her neck is her partially digested lunch

She invites Number 22, Dad we presume, up to digest with her

Number 5, Junior, joins them for a little family digestion (on the far
right)

He's a little sassy


Note Junior's blue stockings

Mom and Dad ignore him and he starts to wonder if maybe blue stockings
are not cool


Sticking his tongue out is evidentally Dad's "mature" way of dealing
with situations

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