Field catalogue #1-1072 and journal, v1669
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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