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10. Straney
1976
5.
10 July contd.
car over and turned back. The drive
is beautiful, but a Jeep would be more
appropriate. Sam has studied the
barn roost before and has connections
with the golf course manager.
Upon entering the NW end of the
barn we opened a sign on the side
of the wall and collected 10 Myotis
dysmanodes and 2 M. yumanensis.
Several bats roosting around the
grain funnel (?) on the ground floor -
all Myotis. The upstairs is the roost
proper and had normal densities
(Sam's description). We picked up
death Myotis from the floor, all
young of evenly distributed size
range which suggests that the
mortality this year is normal (Sam
again) and not overly affected by the
lack of rain (the pond we saw was very
low for July). We netted several bats
from the rafters, including a female
carrying her young (#DOS-64) which unfortunately
became separated. All exits were blocked
and a net was nailed up in the stairwell.
Phenomenal activity of bats at sunset
and none left except to be caught in