I raised some gourds shaped like that one time. Made bird houses from them, and I don't think a bird ever used one. I also raised some "dipper gourds" but they turned out way too big for a drinking dipper. Lots of old timers when I was a kid had a water bucket and a gourd dipper in their house. miles
I grew some and used them for bird feeders and one birdhouse. The squirrels tore the feeders apart to get at the seeds quicker. I cut a proper-sized hole in the birdhouse and had a wren raise a brood in it last summer. The flowers on the gourd plants are really something to see.
