[TN-Bird] House wren back "in it's gourd!"

Hello All, 
 
Here in the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville, Davidson County, I  
THOUGHT I was hearing my house wren whose nest was destroyed singing from a  
neighbor's back yard.  I may have been WRONG.  For the first  time since 
Tuesday 
afternoon, I went downstairs this morning to go do  errands.  When I walked out 
the back door, my male house wren was  chortling away from the branch of a 
grape 
vine that hangs from my deck.   The gourd which had been totally emptied of 
the wren's nesting material by  "something" about a month ago is now filled 
with nesting material once  again.  It was still empty on Tuesday.  Fast, 
aren't 
they?  If  "she" is in there "setting," she is totally covered with all the 
"bedding" that  can be crammed into the gourd.  "He" is being very attentive,  
As I  backed out of the carport, he appeared on the grape vine with a bug that 
looked  like a "June-bug," only smaller.  It appeared that "he" was bringing 
home  the "bacon," which is why I think "she" may be already warming an egg or  
two.  Obviously, this pair has had a rough spring getting settled, or,  
perhaps the pair I've been hearing in the neighbor's yard is a second pair from 
 a 
previous year's nesting downstairs.  Maybe it has taken my birds all this  
time to court, breed and build all over again after their first loss.   Ideas, 
anyone?
 
It's been interesting.
 
Cheers & prayers,
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN

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