BLM bat data: "Water Well N" [memos]

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This series of memos [emails] is begun when Bill Doering mentions having quickly scanned (visually) call files for bat identification for a site called "water well N" and not hearing much noise to filter out. Instead he encounters "continuous non-stop bat calls starting about :30 minutes after sunset and going all night every night." Calls were dominated early by long-eared myotis and a mix of little brown myotis and western small-footed myotis. Yuma myotis showed up at the end of June. Big brown bat and silver-haired bat calls became more frequent in August, with occasional calls of hoary bats. He noted only one Townsend's big-eared bat, but he was "clicking through files as fast as [he] could." Doering wonders whether the location is a cave or a water feature. He later mentions that, given the activity and timing, he'd suspect a maternity roost for long-eared myotis, little brown myotis, and [western] small-footed myotis, as well as stopover habitat for tree bats. Cavallaro and Dixon suggest following up on the site this year. Devin Englestead nails down the location and says the cave can be added to the [survey?] schedule this year.

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ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology: Mammals