All previous bats we have dealt with seemed to have called it quits after 20-25 miles per night. Grab a map because this is where we searched , using 4 vehicles and expending about 41 man hours in less than a day:

I84 was the northern border of the search area.

Monroe, Rt. 5 , Warwick, New Milford was the western border.

The southern border was I287 in New Jersey.

The eastern border was the Hudson River. This search pattern envelopes a beautiful chunk of nonfragmented forest.

At dusk several of the receivers were on high points in New Milford and Bear Mountain, and others began to fall back towards base camp after dark. We hoped the bat would come out of hiding and we might intercept it moving south again, but this did not materialize.

Let's assume this girl decided to make an all nighter, flying until 5:00 AM. The bat would have settled in nearly 85 miles away from the launch point, somewhere around the I80 corridor. Perhaps the bat did a similar move last night/this morning, which means it could be in the nonfragmented forests in south-central New Jersey-- Wharton State Forest, for example. Hopefully it is happy to remain there and not track southwest into Virgina and the Carolinas.

Last night we trapped the mine site only for an hour or so, capturing about 50 miscellaneous bats and no sodalis. Tonight, we will be recharged to track bat #3. We are in the process of arranging an airstrike, with two bats headed towards and hopefully stopping near the Atlantic, we hope to recover both. Hopefully our next few bats will follow the same tracks...the later we trap the more likely we will catch waves of sodalis heading north and west, something we don't have enough airplanes for, yet.

Another note is the hefty weight of these sodalis compared with the "Railroad Tunnel" project of last year...at the tunnel few Ibats were over 6 grams, suggesting the warm temperatures in the tunnel may well be adding tremendous stress to those still remaining.

Below: Morning on the 16, preparing for another 50 mile race tonight.