Watching Annie

Before you think this is either a spy mission or something less than savory – let me introduce you to Annie and Grinnell. This is their fourth year nesting on the UCBerkeley Campanile. Either they have excellent taste in music, or the noise level just doesn’t bother them.

As part of the Institute for Wildlife Studies – there are cams on the nest feeding live into YouTube 24/7. There are four eggs. The best prediction has them hatching starting early this afternoon (PDT). The link is here if you want to see yourself. Otherwise, if you just put Falcon Cam into the You Tube search box – you can probably find the other 2-3 cams also trained in the nest.

I had planned on finishing my paper this afternoon. But Annie proved to be too much a distraction. So I am stitching and watching instead.

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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2 Responses to Watching Annie

  1. Cat says:

    Are you going to actually finish that paper?
    Years ago that late Sue Nelson from XRX sent Margaret’s Mob a link to an eagle cam and they had so much fun watching the young ones grow and eventually leave.
    Me? I have been koala watching – just a little.

    • Holly Doyne says:

      Yes, actually, there is no choice on the paper. I have one small section, the conclusion (which was already done for something else) and the references to format.

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