Phil Schappert 🇨🇦
@philschappert.bsky.social
Fingerstyle Guitarist | Composer | Author | Ph.D. Ecologist (Retired) | CFA Nova Scotian | Entomophotographer | Rabble-Rouser & Artist-in-Residence at Chez Curmudgeon. Hear my solo acoustic guitar (and some trio Papilio) tracks at http://philschappert.ca
Hope my siesta alarm didn't wake EVERYBODY!!!
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Hope my siesta alarm didn't wake EVERYBODY!!!
Had a new visitor to the yard today, travelling with a pair of robins. From the short-ish mostly black bill I suspect this is an immature Bicknell's thrush (but it could be a Grey-cheeked thrush). Thoughts?
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Had a new visitor to the yard today, travelling with a pair of robins. From the short-ish mostly black bill I suspect this is an immature Bicknell's thrush (but it could be a Grey-cheeked thrush). Thoughts?
Had a dinner guest last night: this handsome somewhat lopsided antlers-in-velvet white-tailed buck. He's a regular visitor to our yard. Last night we literally had dinner together as we ate on the back porch and watched him eat his own dinner. He politely posed for photos...
August 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Had a dinner guest last night: this handsome somewhat lopsided antlers-in-velvet white-tailed buck. He's a regular visitor to our yard. Last night we literally had dinner together as we ate on the back porch and watched him eat his own dinner. He politely posed for photos...
A male Pine Warbler (at our suet feeder in Spryfield on Jan 24, 2025).
March 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A male Pine Warbler (at our suet feeder in Spryfield on Jan 24, 2025).
Life, and Death, in the Backyard. At some point this morning, only visible after yesterday's fresh snow, it looks like a Sharp-shinned Hawk (hawk photo from last year), killed and ate a small songbird, from the feathers it was likely a Chickadee. All that's left is the evidence...
February 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Life, and Death, in the Backyard. At some point this morning, only visible after yesterday's fresh snow, it looks like a Sharp-shinned Hawk (hawk photo from last year), killed and ate a small songbird, from the feathers it was likely a Chickadee. All that's left is the evidence...
New year? New car! A 2025 Mazda CX-50 GT AWD Hybrid. Our first brand new vehicle in more than 20 years (and it may be our last)...
January 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New year? New car! A 2025 Mazda CX-50 GT AWD Hybrid. Our first brand new vehicle in more than 20 years (and it may be our last)...
Some photos of our "invasion" of pine warblers which appeared on Tuesday and returned to the suet feeder, in numbers, yesterday. From my photos I think there are 2 males, 1 female and 2 immatures (1 male, 1 female) in this little flock. So nice to see them after 18 years!
January 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Some photos of our "invasion" of pine warblers which appeared on Tuesday and returned to the suet feeder, in numbers, yesterday. From my photos I think there are 2 males, 1 female and 2 immatures (1 male, 1 female) in this little flock. So nice to see them after 18 years!
I think my inaugural post should be something special. So here is my main guitar these days, a custom multiscale Russel Crosby Festival Elite with some pretty special, personalized, inlay work. The butterfly is Heliconius charithonia, the zebra longwing, a favourite from my time in central TX.
November 20, 2024 at 12:14 AM
I think my inaugural post should be something special. So here is my main guitar these days, a custom multiscale Russel Crosby Festival Elite with some pretty special, personalized, inlay work. The butterfly is Heliconius charithonia, the zebra longwing, a favourite from my time in central TX.