Shoot 2022-09-16-194205 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2022-09-16-194205

This gallery contains three separate birding shoots.

For the first, I tried to shoot some birds in my yard. I positioned myself with the sun at my back and waited for them to come to the yard and visit the feeder. I got some decent shots but I don't think there was enough light (the shots are a bit soft and noisy), and I don't particularly like the backgrounds of the shots where the birds are on the bird feeder pole.

On a different day, I noticed a Brown Creeper looking foraging on some trees in our yard so I waited and got a decent photo opportunity on a tree close to our deck. Most of the shots were terribly out of focus but I got one shot I'm happy with. Dealing with the very bright breast feathers of the Brown Creeper seems much easier in Lightroom than with darktable and its "filmic rgb" module.

For the last birding outing here, I went down to the wildlife preserve aiming to get a Pectoral Sandpiper, and was successful! It was a new lifer for me. There was one very actively feeding on a small patch of mud. It was a good deal larger than the nearby Least and Western Sandpipers. I also happened to get a nice shot of a Black-throated Gray Warbler. Many of the ducks were Green-winged Teals, though I saw a few small groups of Blue-winged or Cinnamon teals as well. I followed some American Goldfinches who were feeding on plant seeds, and got some shots I'm happy with. It looked like they had an abundance of food.

My "birds in review" collages can be found here.

Signature

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The above hashes-<date>.txt file contains SHA-256 hashes of all the photos from this shoot. The hashes-<date>.txt.sig is a signature of that hashes file, created with my PGP key. The signature file itself was written to both the Bitcoin Cash and Algorand blockchains, in the OP RETURN and Note fields respectively, using the transactions below. In short, this proves that these photos and the signature both existed at the time the transactions were written to the Bitcoin Cash and Algorand blockchains. This blog post has more details.

view the BCH tx on blockchair.com: 49f823d8204944c5a18beb0f9d2806faaa16299c00831253ffac84c644856423

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: TGVPQ7UGD3FIZG3YRPBDGJLQLAGDYYTNDPWEP7AEJNGGXABP5XQA

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White-breasted Nuthatch

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Steller's Jay

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Steller's Jay

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White-breasted Nuthatch

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Black-capped Chickadee

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Chestnut-backed Chickadee