Condors!

[balzaccom]

We've seen them in the Pinnacles, in the Andes, but this is still so cool

https://patch.com/california/napavalley ... aign=alert

[grampy]

This is really cool Paul - thank you.

[balzaccom]

We had a funny experience in El Chalten, Argentina. We’d just finished hiking the Cerro del Aguila trail there (Patagonia, for those keeping track at home) in the hopes of seeing condors, but were skunked. So we came back to the trailhead to talk to a ranger in the visitors center there, who told us about the calafate bushes and their berries. As we went outside for him to show us an example of the calafate, a condor soared no more than 25 feet overhead.

Yow! Sometimes the best way to find something is to stop looking!

[Rockyroad]

It’s amazing to think that only 22 individual California Condors existed in in the 80s. With conservation efforts, there are now 500+, an amazing success story but there are still challenges.

This condor flew over us a month ago near Pacheco Pass, which is along the Condors’ flight path between Mt Diablo and Pinnacles.

[balzaccom]

Great photo!