SF News Runt of Berkeley Falcon Brood Dies Three Months After Injuring Wing There's some sad news out of Berkeley, where the fourth of four young falcons hatched this spring atop the UC Berkeley Campanile tower has died following a July injury.
SF News Very Hot Day Around the Bay: All of the Berkeley Falcon Chicks Have Now Started Flying Today’s heat wave is likely to continue into Wednesday; a free grocery store is coming to the Bayview District; and all four of this year’s rapidly growing Berkeley falcon chicks have now taken flight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Falcon Name Finalists Now Up For Vote OpenAI is pulling a voice chat assistant that sounded a lot like Scarlett Johansson; the only queer bar in the FiDi is finally reopening; and four sets of finalists have been named in the voting contest to name the newest brood of peregrine falcon chicks at UC Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Yet Another Brood of Baby Falcon Chicks Has a Nest Cam, This One on Alcatraz Island It’s a baby falcon bonanza this spring for those who love fluffy little raptors, as a second peregrine falcon livestream is now up and running from a nest on Alcatraz, and the mama falcon there was actually born to Berkeley falcon Annie in 2018.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Third Baby Falcon Chick Hatches Atop Berkeley Clock Tower The transfer of prisoners out of FCI Dublin has been even more chaotic than we realized; the Tesla layoffs will leave nearly 3,000 Bay Area workers out of a job; and a third baby peregrine falcon has been born at the famed Berkeley nest.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Two Baby Falcon Chicks Hatch on Berkeley Falcon Cam, and on Earth Day to Boot That’s two newborn baby falcons just after hatching beneath their mom Annie atop the Berkeley Campanile on Monday morning, and two more little hatchlings are expected to bust out of their shells in the days to come.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Falcon Annie Has Laid Two Eggs, Third Egg Expected Wednesday The restaurant Quince got some powerful new ammo in their trademark dispute with a retailer; an SF startup is using AI to sort recycling; and the Berkeley Campanile falcons have two eggs in the nest, with another expected on the way.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Falcon Living on Berkeley's Campanile Tower Named After Archie Williams A former Contra Costa County deputy has taken a plea deal in a felony case; Biden told supporters to stay focused on the fight against Trump at an LA event; and the new male mating with falcon Annie on the Berkeley campus has been named Archie, following a naming contest.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Annie Has, Yet Again, Taken a New Mate, Naming Contest to Come The falcon soap opera continues atop the Campanile tower on the UC Berkeley campus, and as we approach nesting season, longtime tower resident Annie has taken on a new male suitor after yet another mate disappeared.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Baby Falcon Chicks Get Names: Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr The naming contest winners have been declared for the batch of three baby peregrine falcons atop the Berkeley Campanile, and going forward the fast-growing chicks will be known as Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Chicks, Almost Fully Grown, Get Tail Feathers, Naming Contest This year's brood of three falcon chicks atop the UC Berkeley Campanile have been officially banded, and we know there are two females and one male — the latest in falcon Annie's growing lineage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Falcon, Who Mated With Berkeley-Born Falcon, Has Died 85% of Bay Area cities still have not passed their Housing Element, the latest Omicron subvariant may be causing pinkeye, and a falcon who mated with the son of our beloved Berkeley falcons Annie and Grinnell has died from avian flu.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Third Berkeley Falcon Chick Hatches, and There Is Video An SF street will be named after Emperor Norton, Pier 70 is getting a new Standard Deviant Brewing and Breadbelly bakery, and a third baby falcon hatched Thursday afternoon alongside its snuggling siblings.
Arts & Entertainment UC Berkeley Falcons Welcome First Hatchling of 2023 Falcon mom Annie got her first hatchling to hatch on Monday afternoon, and there are three more eggs left to go!
SF News Photos: Very Good Berkeley Falcon Dad Brings Food for Chicks, Even Though They’re Not Hatched Yet Celebrity Berkeley celebrity falcon Annie’s new mate Lou has shown another gesture of unusually attentive fatherhood, bringing the hatchlings food, even though they’re still not hatched and can’t eat it yet.
Arts & Entertainment Falcons at UC Berkeley Have Two Eggs In Nest, Third Likely Today Just an update on the peregrine falcons atop UC Berkeley's Campanile: There are already two eggs in Annie's nest, and she's ahead of the usual schedule with the laying by a week or two.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Berkeley Falcon Named For Real-Life Partner Of Falcon Annie's Namesake A Mission housing nonprofit is being sued for allegedly "abandoning" veterans, the Chronicle has responded to billionaire Michael Moritz's NYT op-ed dragging them, and the hunky new Berkeley falcon-cam male got a new name with a heartwarming backstory.
Arts & Entertainment Annie, Berkeley's Celebrity Falcon, Has Yet Another New Mate, as Bird Soap Opera Continues 'Tis the season when we start paying attention to birds' nests on SFist again — specifically the peregrine falcon nest atop UC Berkeley's Campanile, and maybe, someday again, the nest up on PG&E's old headquarters in downtown SF that no longer has a falcon cam.
Arts & Entertainment Update On the UC Berkeley Falcon Chicks: They've Fledged and Started Flying In just seven weeks' time, the two little fluffy peregrine falcon chicks in the UC Berkeley Campanile nest have become fully fledged juveniles — and over the last weekend, they both took their first flights.
Arts & Entertainment Pair of UC Berkeley Peregrine Falcon Chicks Growing Up Fast Just a quick update from the falcon cam atop the UC Berkeley Campanile: Two out of three eggs hatched, and the two chicks are now 11 and 12 days old and eagerly scarfing down whatever prey mom Annie and stepdad Alden bring them.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Campanile Falcon Chicks Starting to Hatch for Mom Annie and Stepdad Alden The last three offspring of Annie with her falcon mate of five years Grinnell look to have been successfully incubated, despite concerns they might not be following Grinnell's untimely death in late March.
SF News Male In Famous Berkeley Falcon Pair Found Dead, Bringing Tragic End to Five-Year Romance Ugh! It's just been one thing after another the past few months for the stable and enduring pair of peregrine falcons who claimed the much-watched nest atop the UC Berkeley Campanile tower. And now Grinnell, the male, was found dead in downtown Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Watchers In Delighted Shock as Annie the Peregrine Falcon Returns to Campanile The Berkeley falcon soap opera takes another twist! After a mysterious and totally uncharacteristic absence of over a week, Annie the peregrine falcon is back and getting ready to breed with Grinnell once again.
Arts & Entertainment Female in Berkeley Falcon Pair Goes Missing, Is Likely Injured or Dead Ugh! The drama seemed to have passed and all was back to normal for the bonded pair of peregrine falcons who have been mating and residing atop the UC Berkeley Campanile. But no!
Arts & Entertainment Good News!: Bonded Peregrine Falcon Couple Revives Their Courtship Atop Berkeley Campanile, Following Injury As if they knew it was New Year's Day and almost time to raise another brood of chicks, longtime falcon lovers Annie and Grinnell reunited and were observed on camera performing courtship behavior for the first time since Grinnell's November return to the nest following a fight with a rival.
