A maybe nest, and one flicker

There have been wrens all over around our porch for a couple of weeks. They seem to be interested in nesting in this gourd, and we hope they do that.

I tried to post a video of one of the wrens twittering away, but it doesn't seem to have worked.

And, there was this Northern Flicker male who posed very nicely for me on the maple tree on the corner: