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While hiking out from Palm Canyon Oasis Nature Trail (Borrego Springs, California), a lamb, a ewe, and a ram began dropping down from the canyon side onto the trail we were hiking on. The ewe was radio collared and had a red ear-tag (#639) on her left ear. My wife and her friend were farther down the trail, so I was behind them, but closest to the sheep. I started taking many photos of the 3 sheep, as they were approaching me. I never expected to see the ram with the ewe and lamb, at this time of year.

N33° 35.689' W116° 05.817

First record of this species in Mission Trails Regional Park. Acoustic detection made using tripod-mounted Echo Meter Touch 2 Pro microphone and iPad Mini 4 microphone. Left side of split image is screen shot of spectrogram of echolocation call of a hand-released COTO on 9/4/2018 east of El Cajon, CA. Spectrogram on the right side of split image is one of three short COTO sequences recorded overnight from the San Diego River bed. It was recorded at 1137 PM PDT. The other detections were at 7:57 PM on 9/8 and 1:29 AM on 9/9. The second photo shows the recording location. The preponderance of recordings (>680) were of Pocketed-free tailed bats (Nyctinomops femorosaccus). Recording session in this closed area was with permission of MTRP ranger staff.