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Atenee, H.
1992
August 8 at 0828h we found the signals from Natalus molossus #
88 and 14F at the same site, a small tuft of grass
pushed down over the burrow - by them? Sunny & Warm.
We waited until 0855h but they hadn't emerged. At
1004h I found C. molossus #3 on top of a huge
Nestoma nest where he had been on June 28th, 500-750m
35W of yesterday's site. at ~1040h we found C.
molossus F 12 under a boulder on a rock ledge in the
general area we couldn't see her the last few days - she
was in a hairpin coil of 3 equivalent length sections, w/
a food bulge >= 1/4 her body length, i.e., adult Nestoma or
larger. By now I was exhausted due to trouble sleeping
last night, so Bryan Jennings and Dave did the others.
C. molossus #9 was still invisible behind the rat nest at
1103h. At 1145 h after a long walk they found C. molossus
#13 hundreds of meters W. of yesterday, 75m N of the
road, 15m E. and 50 m SSE of pole #1, coiled under a
boulder, looking out, no reaction, in the shade. I went
to Rodeo to do laundry, Fogdens arrived, and a great
dinner of chiles rellenos. Broke up w/ Kelly by phone and
went to bed shook up, then a tremendous thunder
storm at 2200h - somethings such crashes that I
imagined the canyon crumblng. I was in a rollaway
bed by a picture window facing up canyon, and at fine
the whole place was so brilliantly illuminated I
could see distant geologic details. Heavy rain
- 1.8" and 0.2" earlier in the afternoon.