I was at Skeleton Point on the South Kaibab Trail when a California Condor decided to join our group as I was making lunch. This is odd because most condors don’t get this close to humans but the reason may be that this particular condor is immature and hasn’t developed a fear of humans yet. I could tell it was a young bird since it hasn’t even been tagged by the National Park Service. It actually seemed as if this condor was hanging out with a pair of ravens and was picking up bad habits from them because it is usually ravens that will hang around our groups at Skeleton Point waiting for stray food scraps.

California Condor at Lunch