Time to fly

Time to fly:
Time to fly
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
KATY MULDOON

Cool morning air will succumb to the first hint of midday heat. A young California condor will step through a door into a boxed-in corner of the pen where he has lived since spring.

He'll reach his beak into a carcass placed there as a lure. Suddenly, another door will slide open. Cautiously, he'll investigate and find that it leads out.

Out to a grassy ridge on the edge of Pinnacles National Monument in Central California. Out to the wild, where he belongs."