We trapped once again and captured about 80 bats, mostly little browns, three big browns and a handful of Northen longeards. Oh, and of course, a single female sodalis weighing in at 6.4 grams, plenty heavy enough to sport a transmitter.

The bat was released at 1:27 AM and spent an hour and a half roosting between 4th and 5th Lakes. Midway during this observation that bat seemed to change roosts. At 3:00 AM the bat headed northeast up an abandoned railroad grade towards a monitoring station. Before reaching the monitoring station, the bat turned south towards Kallops Corners.

A monitoring station at Kallops did not pick up the signal there or at Maple Hill towards the east. A resulting scramble to the Hudson River turned up no hits.

In the vicinity of the last contact there are multiple abandoned mine workings. We checked out many of them on foot during the day. One was discovered to contain over 2,000 bats in the first few thousand feet. This mine, among many others that were viewed, may not have been previously documented.

Tonight we will be monitoring the area in hopes of an emergence. If no luck, we will probably resume trapping in hopes of tracking additional sodalis into Connecticut before our flight next week.

Left: Our frisky bat #3...didn't seem to like it's night roosts...may have gone underground.