Shoot 2022-11-02-203823 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2022-11-02-203823

I went down to the local ponds to try to find some lifer Eared or Horned Grebes, or some White-throated Sparrows. No luck on any of those. One photo was inconclusive for the Grebes, so I had to return a couple days later to confirm that I did in fact not see an Eared or Horned Grebe. Oh well.

I did however see a Sharp-shinned Hawk, which I've only ever seen once or twice before. I also had a cool encounter with a Cooper's Hawk, who didn't mind my taking photos for a while before it flew down and out of sight under a boardwalk next to a pond. It was making calls as well, which I don't think I've ever heard before.

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.

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9:54AM Wednesday October 26, 2022

Steller's Jay

9:54AM Wednesday October 26, 2022

Steller's Jay

3:55PM Wednesday October 26, 2022

American Robin

This was taken through my office window at home, where Robins have been hanging out and occasionally eating a berry or two.

8:37AM Monday October 31, 2022

Pied-billed Grebe

8:37AM Monday October 31, 2022

Pied-billed Grebe

I was hoping this was a Horned Grebe. While taking the photo I assumed it was just a common Pied-billed Grebe, but since its such a bad shot it was hard to tell when reviewing it later. I returned to the pond a couple days later and found a few Pied-billed Grebes that have a similar black, reddish, and white neck. I'm therefore assuming this was a Pied-billed.