Personally I've never been able to get a picture but I can tell you where to look... Along west facing slopes of the Rocky Mountains... Naturally you
look on overcast days where it threatens to rain...
I think they use the cloud cover as a form of camouflage though they stick out black or dark brown against the gray sky the thing is who looks up
while its raining???
The why of west facing slopes is the easy part... prevailing winds in my part of the world are always west to east... we get this huge updraft on the
west side of mountains... that makes it easier for large raptors to soar without expending a whole lot of energy...
I've never seen one strike or in a dive... only way up high doing a typical lazy circle... if that is how they hunt the have the best eye sight of
any big bird... However condors find their meal by sent and they fly just as high so who's to say... they are rare. as long as I've been alive I've
only seen a few maybe six or seven always as a lone bird never in pairs...
They do seem to migrate in the spring I see them moving generally north about the same time we see the sand hill cranes move. maybe that's another
reason they get missed.... hard to pick out one lone bird way up high when the sky under them is filled with noisy cranes...