Tag archives: California Condors
Thermal Quest
It felt like lying on gritty sandpaper. A broad, wide-open, sandstone plateau surrounded in a deep gorge choked in dense chaparral, was a hot spot for spotting endangered California condors in the mid-1990s. Lion Canyon is an impressive, stratified canyon deep in the Sierra Madre Mountains, a “condorminium” in the middle of the Los Padres […]
Bitter Creek Chronicles: California Condors Put on a Show
There wasn’t much going on at the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge (NWF). I was laying in the grassy, rolling hills of this California Condor sanctuary, and I was waiting for something to stir. It was mid-afternoon and thermal updrafts were just beginning to waft skyward when a solitary condor rose above the refuge like […]
