Toxic masculinity

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

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The replies are gold

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Today's giggle post 😂...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx25z2d09vo

Somehow I think there must be more to this story.

FBI arrests senior CIA official after uncovering over $40 million in gold bars & $2 million in cash at his Virginia home.

https://patch.com/virginia/reston/fairfax-co-man-charged-federal-theft-case-after-fbi-seizes-gold-bars-cash

Don't think this lad is named Brian...

Look how Hannah is spending her day 🙄

So because the Pathologist said there was nothing the officers could have done to save Henry's life, that excuses the officers for handcuffing him as he bled out, and waiting three minutes before bothering to help him.

It sounds to me like wagons are being circled around the officers involved.

Oh yeah, he's sorry as well.

Today women in Braintree were documenting migrants at the bus stop and heard a disturbance within a charity shop and accusations of theft.

A lady filming for her own protection, who had no prior interaction with the migrant male, had her camera smashed and was violently punched.

Members of the community rushed to her aid and protected her until the police arrived.

BRAINTREE has had enough - join us this Saturday 30th May 1-3pm Braintree town for our protest....

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EJNrp9Haq/

Got a new Audio book to listen to PAWNS IN THE GAME by William Guy Carr.... looks interesting .: " The best single work available on the evil conspiracy that has been responsible for the devastating wars and continuing conflicts of the past century. They are now close to its ultimate goal of total world domination through a dictatorial one world government. William Guy Carr, a noted author who had a distinguished career as a Canadian naval officer, including outstanding service during World War II, in this work of shocking revelations, shows how the conspiracy of atheistic-materialistic men have manipulated world events to secure ultimate control of the wealth, natural resources and man-power of the entire world. This satanic conspiracy, Carr goes on to show, strives to abolish Christianity and all religions, dismantle all ordered national governments, weaken patriotism, and destroy traditional family life.

Pawns in the Game traces the history of the great conspiracy and the World Revolutionary Movement, showing the roles of the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Communists, and the United Nations.

This book shows the conspiracy as part in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Communist takeover of Russia, and World War II. In carrying out their long-range plan, Carr shows how the conspirators have come ever closer to reaching their goal through infiltration of key centers of power and influence, by gaining control of central banks, the world money supply, and manipulate the media.

In this important rousing book, the author sounds the alarm to awaken Christians and patriots to the grave danger of World War Three and an oppressive New World Order. He presents practical measures to expose, counter and ultimately defeat the forces of evil.

BONUS materials in this edition are never seen before FBI files on their investigations into the author and his organizations....."