Shoot 2023-04-16-195146 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2023-04-16-195146

I got a new lifer! I noticed a Golden-crowned Sparrow and a smaller bird foraging along a path. I went to take a photo and immediately saw the reddish cap on the smaller sparrow. I thought it might be an American Tree Sparrow, but I also had the Merlin app's sound ID feature running and it listed a Chipping Sparrow. It was a very nice looking, and very small, sparrow in breeding plumage. I didn't get to approach it before it flew away. At least I got some decent photos of it. Upon inspection of the photos, I could clearly see a black line through the eye: it was defintely a Chipping Sparrow.

I also finally had my first sighting of a female Rufous Hummingbird, when one landed in the tree just outside my window.

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

Signature

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📄 hashes-2023-04-16-195146.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: 2c39cebc1ea104243f87d78a522ec1d499d98ffc2f145c08d474889573300dd7

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: 7O6UODVH3VUBPQITZHRKXHIALIDEYU6SIABLFJJZZA72F3VIWQ4A