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Wyer's
Pileo
1774
Journal 50
Red Barn, National Seashore Headquarters, 1 mi.
W. Olema, Marin Co., Calif.
15 May By arrangement with Dick Brawn we had a key to
get into the barn. There were more bats
than last time, at least 6-700. all were on the
2 side, even tho both lights had been off
for at least several days. No dead bat seen
on the floor.
In The roost itself was almost
entirely Myotis yumanensis. No M. thysanodes
or frutigerus. Caught 4 Tadarida by
working at it. about half are pregnant
with large (13-20 mm) embryos. the others
have either very small (3-7mm) swellings or are
unpregnant. One is obviously multiparous, with
infused epiphyses in the palange.
Most bats are fat. Checked out the fur barn
where we caught an eptesicus last trip, but
found nothing more than a few droppings.
In the Red Barn we cleaned off the
scaffold & roof beams & put down some
metal traps to catch dropping.
air temperature
11°C at 8 A.M.
Muddy Hollow, National Seashore Marin Co.
Calif. ±200 ft arrived around 9:45:30.
Saw one bat along the roof beam - a
M. yumanensis & one under the lath paper
walls a Tadarida (the first from here).
But large piles of dropping on the floor &
dropping splattered uniformly over much of
floor & walls? God is a right roost?