Join the Yolo Basin Foundation to watch almost a quarter million Mexican free-tailed bats fly out from under the Yolo Causeway. This large maternal colony leaves the causeway nightly in a large ribbon of bats to consume millions of insects throughout the farm fields and neighborhoods. The mother bats are currently pregnant, and will eat their weight in insects each night. Each female will give birth the end of June or early July to a single pup.

During the summer the Yolo Basin Foundation will host several Bat Talk and Walk presentations. The June 14th event is scheduled at 6:45 pm at the Yolo Wildlife Area Headquarters at 45211 County Road 32B (Chiles Road) in south Davis. There will be a talk on the ecological importance and conservation of CA bats followed by a guided tour into the Yolo Wildlife Area to watch the bats fly out just before sunset. For more info see Bat Talk & Walk