18 days

Sunday, May 09, 2004, at 10:48AM

By Eric Richardson

Middle of last month I mentioned that a pair of pigeons (well, I said "pidgeons") was building a next on our balcony. They did so, and promptly laid eggs. Aside from not knowing how to spell, I also didn't know anything about, for instance, how long pigeon eggs take to hatch. Today I finally looked that up, and according to this page the answer is 18 days. "18 days," I asked myself, "shouldn't that make it about right now?"

The answer, yes. I just walked out to the balcony and noticed some movement under the mother pigeon. Sure enough there are baby pigeons under there.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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