Kingsley 1980 51 5 Oct Plumway Canyon Rd. 1/4 mi W of junction with crossroad that leads to Strozzi Ranch road, 5200 ft Traps up by 1000. Overall success 10/80 = 12.5 % Stopped to check weather station at Seismologic station. saw Sage Sparrows there. Moved to McDonald Spring, 5600 ft, also in sagebrush community, via Beetle, Bullfrog, through Larrea and mixed shrub communities. 5 Oct McDonald Spring, 5600 ft, sagebrush community. The spring is a mud puddle about 6 ft x 10 feet x 4 inches at most. No vegetation around water for about 10 feet. Heavily used by cattle and horses, some deer use, many chickadees, some Gambel's Quail, Rock Wren, Cooper's Hawk, White-crowned Sparrows, Marsh Hawk, Raven, White-throated Swift. Up canyon 20 feet from spring begins a dense patch of Calycothamnus nauseosus which was in bloom, extending for about 100 feet. Set 80 traps, 2-trap stations | sherman | museum special, 20 meter spacing, 2 lines. One line was along gentle slope S of road. Second line was along wash from rock outcrop approx 100 meters up canyon from spring, extending down wash, with 4 double sets immediately around spring and in Calycothamnus. Spent evening from 1930 to 2230 netting bats over spring. Caught 2 Pipistrellus kepers, released one | Myotis thysanodes, | Myotis californicus?. Two mule deer, male?, approached water while I was there, but were frightened away. I got a good look at them from approx 50 feet away, they froze in my flashlight beam.