Dave Langlois
@davelanglois.bsky.social
Author, nature lover, birding cyclist (1200k pa), art lover, music lover. And I love it when all those come together.
Butterfly season still in full swing here in Asturias. Over 20 adonis blues, 2 small pearl-bordered frits and a host of other butterflies hovering over the gorse on yesterday’s walk, and today a gorgeous brown hairstreak ovipositing on my garden prunus.
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Butterfly season still in full swing here in Asturias. Over 20 adonis blues, 2 small pearl-bordered frits and a host of other butterflies hovering over the gorse on yesterday’s walk, and today a gorgeous brown hairstreak ovipositing on my garden prunus.
Still plenty of pristine adonis blues on the wing on today's walk from our house through the scenery showed in the other photo
October 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Still plenty of pristine adonis blues on the wing on today's walk from our house through the scenery showed in the other photo
Sometimes a beautiful day just keeps building to a stunning climax
October 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sometimes a beautiful day just keeps building to a stunning climax
My 2011-to-2025 red-backed-shrike survey in Asturias. In 2025 137 of 326 sites occupied. The data suffer irremediably from the missing zero effect. With that caveat @Naturalist_Sam has drawn up some neat graphs. Map shows my cycling routes and territories color-coded by height
September 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My 2011-to-2025 red-backed-shrike survey in Asturias. In 2025 137 of 326 sites occupied. The data suffer irremediably from the missing zero effect. With that caveat @Naturalist_Sam has drawn up some neat graphs. Map shows my cycling routes and territories color-coded by height
One of the completest rainbows I've ever seen, with our new house at one of the treasure-crock ends.
September 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
One of the completest rainbows I've ever seen, with our new house at one of the treasure-crock ends.
For the last few days the carrion crows here have been flying around with walnuts in their beaks, dropping them on the road to break open. And at dawn today a crow was burying one in my garden, poking it well down and then carefully covering it with strands of hay and grass.
September 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
For the last few days the carrion crows here have been flying around with walnuts in their beaks, dropping them on the road to break open. And at dawn today a crow was burying one in my garden, poking it well down and then carefully covering it with strands of hay and grass.
With the recent addition of blue tit this prunus tree in my garden has now been perched in by 15 different species this summer. Anyone beat it?
September 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
With the recent addition of blue tit this prunus tree in my garden has now been perched in by 15 different species this summer. Anyone beat it?
The name chosen for our new house in Asturias as homage to the 3 pairs of redstarts that breed in and around the garden
September 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The name chosen for our new house in Asturias as homage to the 3 pairs of redstarts that breed in and around the garden
1 TREE. 14 BIRDS
Our garden tree closest to the house has played host this summer to:
Red backed shrike
Redstart
Tree creeper
Great tit
Iberian chiffchaff
Willow warbler
Pied flycather
Blackcap
Great spotted woodpecker
Jay
Blackbird
Robin
Long tailed tit
House Sparrow
Our garden tree closest to the house has played host this summer to:
Red backed shrike
Redstart
Tree creeper
Great tit
Iberian chiffchaff
Willow warbler
Pied flycather
Blackcap
Great spotted woodpecker
Jay
Blackbird
Robin
Long tailed tit
House Sparrow
August 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
1 TREE. 14 BIRDS
Our garden tree closest to the house has played host this summer to:
Red backed shrike
Redstart
Tree creeper
Great tit
Iberian chiffchaff
Willow warbler
Pied flycather
Blackcap
Great spotted woodpecker
Jay
Blackbird
Robin
Long tailed tit
House Sparrow
Our garden tree closest to the house has played host this summer to:
Red backed shrike
Redstart
Tree creeper
Great tit
Iberian chiffchaff
Willow warbler
Pied flycather
Blackcap
Great spotted woodpecker
Jay
Blackbird
Robin
Long tailed tit
House Sparrow
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Farage would not only deport asylum seekers to the Taliban but will fund their execution
Farage's proposals to tackle migration 'add up to a Taliban tax', warn Lib Dems
Politics latest: Farage's proposals to tackle migration 'add up to a Taliban tax', warn Lib Dems
The Liberal Democrats say Reform UK's plans to pay countries to accept deportees, including countries like Afghanistan, will see billions sent to "an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought…
news.sky.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Farage would not only deport asylum seekers to the Taliban but will fund their execution
13 busy male red-backed shrikes and the first young of the year on today’s wonderful ride, including a still big-ringable Cat 2 (Vuelta) to raise my sagging cycling morale.
June 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
13 busy male red-backed shrikes and the first young of the year on today’s wonderful ride, including a still big-ringable Cat 2 (Vuelta) to raise my sagging cycling morale.
When I stepped out of my front door this morning at 5.45 the only 2 sounds in the divine-smelling, lung-expanding gloaming were a Redstart singing from my eaves and a Nightjar singing from my trees. Slap me someone.
June 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When I stepped out of my front door this morning at 5.45 the only 2 sounds in the divine-smelling, lung-expanding gloaming were a Redstart singing from my eaves and a Nightjar singing from my trees. Slap me someone.
I spoke in a recent post about the joy of having 3 reds in the garden of my new house in Asturias: Redstart, Red-backed Shrike and Redbreast. They’re also all tail wagglers in their distinctive ways: Robin’s a tail twitcher; Redstart, a tail quiverer; the shrike a tail swayer.
June 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I spoke in a recent post about the joy of having 3 reds in the garden of my new house in Asturias: Redstart, Red-backed Shrike and Redbreast. They’re also all tail wagglers in their distinctive ways: Robin’s a tail twitcher; Redstart, a tail quiverer; the shrike a tail swayer.
While reading at 05.45, window wide-open to hear the dawn chorus, I suddenly heard the magical churring of a Nightjar in my garden, followed by the even more wonderful sound of a spring winding down as it launches into flight. The only other sound: the day’s first redstart.
June 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
While reading at 05.45, window wide-open to hear the dawn chorus, I suddenly heard the magical churring of a Nightjar in my garden, followed by the even more wonderful sound of a spring winding down as it launches into flight. The only other sound: the day’s first redstart.
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Tests carried out on a pair of nesting Peregrine Falcons that died within days of each other have confirmed that the female was infected with bird flu:
Bird flu detected in dead nesting Peregrine Falcon
A female Peregrine Falcon nesting at Christchurch Priory, Dorset, was confirmed to have died from bird flu in early May 2025, with her mate dying shortly after. Their eggs were non-viable. A 3-km control zone is in place to limit spread. Defra also confirmed H5N1 in captive birds near Pokesdown.
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June 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Tests carried out on a pair of nesting Peregrine Falcons that died within days of each other have confirmed that the female was infected with bird flu:
Amidst tinkling Goldfinches a Blackbird sings with masterful half-heartedness, like Beethoven idly trying out a new tune with one hand while eating a Bratwurst with the other.
June 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Amidst tinkling Goldfinches a Blackbird sings with masterful half-heartedness, like Beethoven idly trying out a new tune with one hand while eating a Bratwurst with the other.
THREE REDS
Bad news for a batsman. But I’m chuffed to have seen from the garden of our new house in Asturias, two pairs of Redstart, two pairs of Red Backed Shrike and, of course, several Redbreasts.
Bad news for a batsman. But I’m chuffed to have seen from the garden of our new house in Asturias, two pairs of Redstart, two pairs of Red Backed Shrike and, of course, several Redbreasts.
May 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
THREE REDS
Bad news for a batsman. But I’m chuffed to have seen from the garden of our new house in Asturias, two pairs of Redstart, two pairs of Red Backed Shrike and, of course, several Redbreasts.
Bad news for a batsman. But I’m chuffed to have seen from the garden of our new house in Asturias, two pairs of Redstart, two pairs of Red Backed Shrike and, of course, several Redbreasts.
Two Painted Ladies flat on a rock: kitsch lichen.
May 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Two Painted Ladies flat on a rock: kitsch lichen.
Today on a wonderful walk from my house I got Spain's version of the Holy Trinity: Redstart, Pied Fly & Bonelli's Warbler, the poor man's Wood Warbler (terrible thing to say but they'll never know . . . )
May 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today on a wonderful walk from my house I got Spain's version of the Holy Trinity: Redstart, Pied Fly & Bonelli's Warbler, the poor man's Wood Warbler (terrible thing to say but they'll never know . . . )
50+ bee-eaters adorning a dead tree against an angry black sky illuminated from behind me by the rising sun like a theatre spotlight
May 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
50+ bee-eaters adorning a dead tree against an angry black sky illuminated from behind me by the rising sun like a theatre spotlight
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Ya se puede encargar en www.tundraediciones.es A LA SOMBRA DE GIGANTES, de Alfonso Rodrigo. Nuevo título de la #ColecciónPaseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza, que esta vez transcurre por las lagunas y llanuras esteparias de Villafáfila. Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Ya se puede encargar en www.tundraediciones.es A LA SOMBRA DE GIGANTES, de Alfonso Rodrigo. Nuevo título de la #ColecciónPaseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza, que esta vez transcurre por las lagunas y llanuras esteparias de Villafáfila. Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social
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Es el momento de empaparse de este libro. ¡Los pájaros ya están a tope! LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, de Dave Langlois con prólogo de @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social
www.tundraediciones.es
www.tundraediciones.es
March 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Es el momento de empaparse de este libro. ¡Los pájaros ya están a tope! LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, de Dave Langlois con prólogo de @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social
www.tundraediciones.es
www.tundraediciones.es
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Amanece la primavera animada por LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, para comprenderlos, nada mejor que este libro de Dave Langlois que encontrarás en www.tundraediciones.es
March 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Amanece la primavera animada por LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, para comprenderlos, nada mejor que este libro de Dave Langlois que encontrarás en www.tundraediciones.es
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Ya disponible ESTACIONES, de @alfonsdg.bsky.social, nuevo título de la Colección Paseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza. ¿Cuánto nos queda de poder disfrutar las estaciones mediterráneas tal como las conocemos? Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social. www.tundraediciones.es
March 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Ya disponible ESTACIONES, de @alfonsdg.bsky.social, nuevo título de la Colección Paseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza. ¿Cuánto nos queda de poder disfrutar las estaciones mediterráneas tal como las conocemos? Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social. www.tundraediciones.es
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¿Cuánto nos queda de poder disfrutar las estaciones mediterráneas tal como las conocemos? Ya se puede encargar en www.tundraediciones.es ESTACIONES, de @alfonsdg.bsky.social Nuevo título de la Colección Paseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza. Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
¿Cuánto nos queda de poder disfrutar las estaciones mediterráneas tal como las conocemos? Ya se puede encargar en www.tundraediciones.es ESTACIONES, de @alfonsdg.bsky.social Nuevo título de la Colección Paseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza. Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social