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Redstone
1945
Journal 63.
Nov. 18. Alameda & Santa Clara Counties, California
Left Berkeley shortly after 10 AM with M. Ramage, and
W. & M. Fox. Drove to Mission San Jose where
we looked in the Mission for Corynorhinus. These
bats evidently roost in the darkest part of
the attic (the NE part) but hang up at night
in the more open south end. The mission
has a new roof - tile facing the front & shingles
behind. The roof does not follow the con
design of the old one being 6' higher & the
ridge pole is about 6' feet farther back. It
seems probable that the bats have left for the winter.
From here we drove to New Almaden in Santa
Clara County & up on the ridge to the north -
about a mile (bee-line) from the town. Here
there was a Hg. mine & we investigated two
horizontal shafts, one where the road falls
just before you get to the mining community
and one a short distance to the north along
the other forks. The former yielded no bats &
we saw no signs of them but the other had
one Myotis (which I caught in a net) and numerous
small piles of droppings under small devices
in the ceiling of the shaft. There were few places
in the shaft which could not be reached by
one's hands and it looked as though several
other small bats had recently been in the
mine shaft. We left here about 2:45 PM and