Hatch Day festivities are planned Wednesday at UC Berkeley to celebrate a new group of peregrine falcon chicks that recently hatched atop the school’s famous bell tower.

Three chicks have hatched so far this week on top of the Campanile, the third-largest bell-and-clock tower in the world and the home since 2016 of a female falcon named Annie, according to the Cal Falcons group of scientists and volunteers who monitor the falcons and share footage and information about them on social media.

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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.