[Nepeta]

Well, they make wren bird houses, so you could position houses around the spots where you want them to help you out, and see: If you build it the will come.LOL

I remember my father making wren houses 50+ years ago--but the houses had to age out in the weather for a few years before the wrens considered them fit to live in.

[greeneyes]

I guess our wrens aren’t so particular. We put out some wren and bluebird houses a few years back when my dad moved in with us.

The birds moved right in.

[ApplegateRanch]

the houses had to age out in the weather for a few years before the wrens considered them fit to live in.

I have an add-on shelf above the windshield in the truck. Late last spring, I parked it near the barn, and had the wind-wings open. A couple days later, I got in & saw twigs sticking out from that shelf, on the passenger side. A male wren had placed a stock pile there, to attract a female!

That is normal procedure for house wrens: he picks a half dozen likely spots, and builds a pile of nest building supplies in each, then hopes the love of his life will choose one of them, and be his mate. They then build the nest there, and he abandons the other sites and stockpiles.