Each night around sunset, in one of the most upscale parts of the city, the bats get ready to fly.
They’re Mexican free-tailed bats, a small species found up and down North, Central and South America. And from May to October, you can find them at the Phoenix Bat Cave.
It’s not really a cave. It’s a flood control tunnel located near Camelback Road and 40th Street, behind Phoenix Country Day School. But it is the summer home of a colony of around 10,000 bats…