April 30th

Well, last night was a good one. The female bat PGC204 had sort of settled into a area of good habitat about 8 miles from the hibernacula. Her route had taken her east along a fairly major stream. We figured that the bat (if it moved again) would continue to hop down stream. It had been at this site for a few days and had done some foraging on previous nights but had returned to the same tree each day.

After about a hour of foraging on the night of the 29th it disappeared. Blip and gone. After a bit of scrambling scanning the stream corridor we focused our attention on the nearby ridge. Bat had flown up and over the ridge, we reacquired it, monitored it till it settled down, retreated to base for a few hours sleep and are now in the process of deploying back to the site to locate the exact roost. It's current location is around 12 miles almost due east of the hibernacula. The stream/river it was following also trended east, but at the point the bat departed from it had started to curve north. Possibly direction not the river is controlling the bats movement.......

Male bat 207 appears to have settled back to the same tree as previous nights. We continue to catch lots of bats in the traps, last night was a 50+ night. No new sodalis for the past few days.

More later.....