With the bad weather the last couple days, I didn't see many PMs before or after work. Today the weather cleared up and I saw a couple a few times throughout the day. I decided to sit out on the deck the 30-40 minutes before sunset. To this point, I had still not seen a PM actually go inside one of my gourds.
Nothing at first then I saw a couple flying around and landing on the gourd porches. After a couple minutes, I saw a PM (that I didn't know was there yet) come out of a gourd. I ended up seeing a total of five at once flying around checking everything out. I had an adult male and a female stay overnight in the same gourd. A third subadult male (assuming) also stayed in a separate gourd alone. The subadult male kept landing on the porch the other two had occupied but was ran off by the adult male multiple times.
Ten or so minutes after the sun went down, I went back outside by the poles and heard them moving around inside.
Video of them outside the gourd (they ended up staying in the end gourd on the right)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6T2eoY ... e=youtu.be
Random picture: PMs on three of the four end gourds. They really seem to like those the best.
Fingers crossed!
Repeating traps for Sparrows and Starlings are both working (3 Sparrows and 5 Starlings caught so far).
There is always something to wonder about.