China Scene: North

Workers put up with summer heat to care for pigeon pair

Twelve office workers in Beijing were in the habit of turning off the air conditioning on hot days to avoid disturbing a pair of gray pigeons who were nesting under an outdoor air-conditioning unit.

Li Yong, the worker who first found the birds, said he was about to switch on the air conditioner one hot day when he saw two eggs in a nest under the unit.