On Wednesday evening, three kids and I watched five Killdeer on the gabled roof of the building housing the Armstrong School of Dance and other businesses on Catherwood Drive in Lansing. The birds were calling incessantly and walking freely around, despite the steep pitch and apparently smooth metal surface. They showed no interest in joining the Ring-billed Gulls on the apex. I know that Killdeer like flat gravel roofs, but I doubt I've ever seen any on an angled roof before tonight, let alone five together. It seemed likely that they'd stay there overnight.
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