Field notes, v1523
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May 2 min temp. overnight 37°. Morning 38°. No bats in note, none in garage. Antonio, the caretaker, took me to a cave: up the hill on the road until it level off, then along a cliff to the right for about 1/4 mile. The cave was just deep enough to need a flashlight to see one myotis hanging from in a slight crack in the ceiling. Air temp 4°C, cave temp 8°, hot 7°. Looked at some other caves also, but none as good and none with bats. After lunch drove out about 2 miles on the road to Lago Mascandi, then east on a dirt road marked Refugio Club Antonio. A high cliff to the left of this road looked like it might have caves, so we climbed up and along it, but found only shallow caves or deep crevices, no bats. But 3 two-two trips on the way out and picked them up on the way back, no action. Dinner with Rafaport family, night at Hotel Ideal in Barichico May 3 much rain during night and until at least 10 a.m. Left 10 am for Cerro de Jesus and Cerro de Jesus, which are on the Pilconigua road 16 km N E Barichiche. Dones and pellets, including cypress, reminding of pinion-juniper habitat. One of the two caves was fairly large and dark, but no bats, could not get into an alleged rock chamber. Pellets: 1 Sotolophis haeii, 18 Ctenops; 11 Reithrodontomys, 12 Myotis, 1 Phyllostomus, 8 Elymolopterus, 7 abodon Then drove to Estancia Chocalueco. Peter Dunfron was there, said he had seen bats in the attic a couple of days ago. Sun was out, air temp in shade 14° (2:30 p.m.). In attic temp was 18°, but no bats. Either they are now using the attic as a night roost or Peter's "few days ago" was wrong.