@birdscolour56 It's all about the worms! lol
'this bouncing walk helps the woodcock locate its favorite meal: earthworms. The rhythmic bobbing and foot-stomping send vibrations into the soil, startling worms and causing them to move'
Beware the vibrations ๐
@caitoz "What moved us was not just the technological achievement, but the emotional immediacy and urgency of the story itself,โ said ardent Zionist and Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal.
@Janetloo@LauraLoomer@AuthorJCHowell "his benevolence"? He was going to pay for the renovations out of his own pocket? Be honest, all he wants to do is paint everything gold.
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.
Listen, Jack. First of all, welcome to reply-guy political twitter. Secondly, not everyone wants to be the main character, lest they be exposed a fool. Ahem.
Long story short, please stop providing consulting services to the Democrats because I want them to win. Just give money. To the lady or gentleman that AOC tells you to.
@jappleby Or, or..people think the Dem party has lost its way and worry that our candidates don't have what it takes to push back on the toxic messaging from the GOP.
You seem somewhat "unimaginative" yourself, actually.