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.