Shoot 2022-10-11-192357 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2022-10-11-192357

This gallery has photos from two separate outings to the same location. There were a few reports of would-be new lifers in the area, so I visited twice in 3 days. I did manage to get a shot of a new lifer, Ruddy Duck! It was a bit far away and hard to distinguish from all the other brown ducks while there in person, but after seeing the bird in the camera viewfinder, I really thought I did see one. And the photos are unambiguously of a Ruddy Duck so I'm pretty happy to finally have photographed one.

I didn't get a picture of one, but I clearly heard (and recorded) several Virginia Rails on these outings, and the one recording was of a bird close enough (and without a lot of noise in the recording) for me to finally add Virginia Rail to my life list as well.

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

Signature

📄 hashes-2022-10-11-192357.txt

📄 hashes-2022-10-11-192357.txt.sig

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: b2563caa0f16769d93222fcd98eaebe511dae207cc01c57228dd7bda41ba9351

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: HUO6D3NJBF5BWGP4PDOSTW6FAKIRKJR27DI3SL3I33TCLTVVEVQA

1:07PM Sunday April 10, 2022

Hermit Thrush

This is an older photo that I re-processed, now having access to Topaz Sharpen AI.