The saga of the falcons that live on top of the Campanile on the campus of UC Berkeley is about to add a new chapter.

The Giants’ ballpark area will soon have a statue to the first woman who played for the SF Sea Lions in the Negro Baseball Leagues, plus four other new “street room” installations at the Mission Rock development.

The City of Santa Clara is dealing with a big problem with poop. Goose poop to be exact.

This week, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will vote on a plan that would connect two huge county parks in South San Jose, Calero County Park and Santa Teresa County Park.

Sad news for a peregrine falcon that made his home on top of the huge Campanile at UC Berkeley and that had recently made a resilient recovery.

Brickyard Cove became the newest public space inside the 1,833-acre McLaughlin Eastshore State Park over the weekend, adding a list of amenities — picnic tables, walking paths, bike racks, and more — to the area, as well as easier access to the SF Bay Trail.

Crews are hard at work in the mountains of Northern Santa Cruz County establishing a huge new trail system after the area was devastated by a lightning-sparked wildfire two years ago.

Officials in Mountain View are relocating a rafter of wild turkeys which have been roosting at the Ames Research Facility for several years. The birds were initially seen as harmless, but have been impeding cars and have even disrupted flights at the nearby Moffett Federal Field.

After a $10 million upgrade four years ago, the Helen Diller Civic Center Playgrounds are now apparently crawling with rats.

Amusingly named Meta Park, a 2.2-acre new bit of green space at the end of Chilco Street in Menlo Park debuted this past weekend to the public, featuring a sloped grass lawn and access to the 350-mile-long San Francisco Bay Trail.

A new baseball diamond and bleachers, exercise equipment, and 29 new trees are the centerpieces of the new and improved K.C. Jones Playground on Third Street in the Bayview.

A makeshift, community-built park in the Sunset is set to be bulldozed in May, but at least will be replaced with 135 units of affordable teacher housing.

The SF Planning Commission approved a plan Thursday to beautify Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square, and the most popular part of the plan is getting rid of that ugly pedestrian bridge above Kearny Street.