The Strange Incident of the Quail in the Early Morning

I'm putting up these two somewhat redundant pictures because I'm not sure which one most clearly illustrates the fact that outside my window (right by my bed) there is about 2-3 feet of roof slantiness.  It's pretty cool--I use it to check if it has snowed or not!  Okay, but this morning something WACKY happened.  So, I was having this truly horrific dream about this awful giant insect-snake beast that was somehow out loose in some place where we were, and it made this awful choky-bird call sound that filled us all with dread terror.  Seriously, it was a pretty freaky dream.  So anyway then it's like somewhere around 8 in the morning (which IS early especially on a weekend) I sort of groggily wake up and I can STILL HEAR the insect beast.  Rather horrified, I then sense movement outside my window!  It was indeed the insect snake beast, except that to camouflage itself it had morphed into a family of QUAIL that were running by my window, like 6 inches from my face through the frigging glass.  I just sat there staring out the window when one after another these little quail just sauntered on by, la de freaking da.  It was weird.