It probably won’t be there long. There’s very high predation on exposed killdeer nests: cat, dog, snake, raccoon, hawk, crow, etc.
They are remarkably durable here. Every year one makes a next on the gravel driveway. There are hawks, owls, coyotes, dogs, snakes... The parents always seem to keep them at bay because soon little cotton balls are running around while parents put on their college snowflake dance to distract the predators.
I have seen them in the parking lot across from my shop which is home to an excavation company, Every year they do the same thing and the birds always seem to make it.
But now knowing their nests are protected by the feds if they are blocking companies.. Well. S.S. and S