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Shoot 2023-11-18-193949

A few days ago I saw a good size group of a new lifer, American Pipit. I'd previously made several trips to go out looking for them this fall. I went out to a gravel farm road at the edge of town. After I parked my car on the side of the road, I noticed some small birds in the field there. Pipits! I watched as a couple more smaller groups flew in and landed there to forage. I took a few looks through my binoculars, and a took few ok photos (though the birds weren't very close to me). I'm lucky they visited the field there where I was -- there's tons of flat open space out in that area! I'm also really glad to finally stop looking for these birds!

On a separate outing, I caught a brief glimpse of a couple Virginia Rails and was able to get one mostly in-focus shot of one. Not a great shot, but an improvement for me!

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

Signature

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📄 hashes-2023-11-18-193949.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: a12d50c751f8ba36e58eb62df99e4c6665334e6304c64b5431dcb69230b5cf3e

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: IUY3GLXGT4DCJECR4TJMW6RKY5XDNSITCDHUO6EKSWPL2SRY6MHA

11:16AM Saturday November 04, 2023

Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

11:16AM Saturday November 04, 2023

Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

11:16AM Saturday November 04, 2023

Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

11:16AM Saturday November 04, 2023

Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

10:31AM Monday November 06, 2023

Great Blue Heron

I used Photoshop's "Generative Fill" feature here to fill in some more out of focus background content in the bottom right corner of the image, painting over a corner of the weir you can see in the other heron shot. "Generative Fill" works very well for that purpose.