May 4th

Last night was a night of action, one female jumped over 15 miles, we stayed with it almost the whole way, lost it when it jumped a ridge that we had to detour 30 miles around, picked it back up within a hour. One of the males went downstream a few miles then headed up into the hills. The other two bats fed and returned to (or close to, we'll check the exact locations later today) the same roosts. They had us on our toes keeping up with them, that's for sure. Both females followed close to the same path, I'm wondering if they will turn up in the same summer colony...... The first females transmitters life is about up (day 12 on a 10 day transmitter). The far jumping female is on day 4 or so of a 21 day transmitter, so looks like we may be in for a ride. I think we have good odds of tracking it all the way to a maternity site. Though taking 15+ mile jumps it may have a chance to loose us yet. It's now a bit over 20 miles from the hibernacula (as the bat flies).