We trapped until nearly 2:00 AM with our largest capture yet with over 200 bats. Female little browns vastly outnumbered other species, but a few Northern longeards, big browns, and even a small footed bat made an appearance.

No sodalis were captured at all, allowing for a well deserved catch-up of sleep and map making. This marks the first night in five that we struck out in capturing a suitable sodalis. Tomorrow is another night...

Meanwhile, our airstrike is beginning to materialize; it appears that Thursday will be the first day over Connecticut, weather permitting.

Since the last three updates were rather bland, I've decided to spice things up a bit with a short bat trapping movie. It shows a little brown testing the harp and ultimately becoming captured. The file size is 4.5 megs, but what the heck. To view it you will need a Quicktime compatible movie viewer. If you need to download Quicktime, visit the Apple website (yes, you Wintel people get the PC version) at Apple Computer.

Click here to download the bat trap video!