Duck Days educates, entertains

Enterprise staff

The Yolo Basin Foundation hosted the 2023 California Duck Days Festival at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters on

Saturday, April 29.

More than 1,400 participants, 90 volunteers and 83 exhibitors participated in the family-oriented outdoor festival, focused on wildlife education, which included interactive exhibits, arts and crafts, fly tying, wood duck nest box building, bird dog demonstration and ducklings, of course.

Event organizer Corky

Quirk said she hoped children would be influenced by this project become more at ease with nature from a basic science perspective. Visit yolobasin. org.

Corky Quirk, the founder of Northern California Basts, holds a Mexican free-tailed bat. NorCal Bats is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of bats. Quirk leads the Yolo Basin Foundation’s bat walks beneath the Yolo Causeway where a population of 250,000 bats nest during the summer months. At left, Ke’-lik-a-lik, an American kestrel cared for by Jacqueline Ramirez — Manager of Volunteer Programs for the Effie Yeaw Nature Center Carmichael — was one of the guests of honor at Duck Days.