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Feb. 14, 1980
Berkeley to Hastings Reservation Monterey Ca. 25 mile
23 Nov several of us decided to set mon-
folding live traps. We set 23 traps
in deparral above the schoolhouse and
baited them with rolled oats. It was
17:00 when we finished, and getting
dark. We walked east to a little
pond where Jim Patton had staked
out a mist net, and we opened it
up and waited for bats to come.
Shortly, we saw several Myotis
and one larger bat (probably lasiurus),
but the full moon shed light, even
with a cloud cover, so as to make
the net visible to bats. They clearly
avoided the net. We walked south
to camp and ate dinner. At about
20:00 we checked the net again; it
was empty, so we closed it up. It was
so light that we could see very
clearly details of the landscape and
each other. Back at camp we went
to check the live traps and found
six trapped mammals, including
a Nestoma fuscipes, a Sigmodon sanctus,
a Perognathus californicus, and some
Peromyscus maniculatus and truei. We
brought these into the lab to show