It was an eggs-citing time Tuesday at a party to celebrate the hatching of new peregrine falcon chicks in a nest at University of California at Berkeley’s famous bell tower.

The hatching of four eggs of a falcon named Annie and her new mate Lou atop UC Berkeley’s Campanile tower was the inspiration for a party being held all day at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), which was showing a live video feed of the birds on an outdoor screen as part of a free event.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.