Shoot 2023-03-05-143106 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2023-03-05-143106

We've had a lot of cold and wet days recently, but on the first of the month I was able to get out and photograph some birds.

I walked by the river a ways and saw some Common Goldeneye for the second time, again too far away for good photos. Then I came across a perfect photo opportunity.

There is this open rocky area of the river bank that gently slopes toward the water. Many very tame Mallards are always there, but this time there were some other birds there, right off shore. I was able to crouch down, in good light with the sun pointing directly at my back, hold the camera down near the ground and get some eye-level shots of Lesser Scaup, a Spotted Sandpiper, a Pied-billed Grebe, and some gulls.

It was only about 38 degrees, but with the sunshine, and the calm water and ducks, it was a very pleasant way to spend a morning. I think I crouched there for well more than a half hour. Good photo opportunities like that don't come around very often.

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

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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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This is a re-process of my 2023-02-17 untracked M31 Andromeda data, this time stacking 303 frames.

3:41PM Monday February 27, 2023

Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

3:45PM Monday February 27, 2023

Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

3:54PM Monday February 27, 2023

9:09AM Wednesday March 01, 2023

Lesser Scaup

9:12AM Wednesday March 01, 2023

Common Goldeneye

9:18AM Wednesday March 01, 2023

Common Merganser

9:23AM Wednesday March 01, 2023

Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid)

9:33AM Wednesday March 01, 2023

Pied-billed Grebe

9:34AM Wednesday March 01, 2023

Pied-billed Grebe

9:34AM Wednesday March 01, 2023

Pied-billed Grebe

9:34AM Wednesday March 01, 2023

Pied-billed Grebe