Shoot 2023-11-23-070152 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2023-11-23-070152

After Eurasian Wigeon sightings were reported on eBird over the course of a couple days, I was able to go out on the third day to try to see it. I went to the local ponds where the sightings were reported, and I saw a few hundred ducks. After searching for a while with my binoculars, and taking lots of photos (in case I missed it) I did eventually find it. There were many American Wigeons there, but this lone Eurasian Wigeon had a nice red head with golden streak down the middle of the crown of his head. I looked at it for a couple minutes with my binoculars, and took some photos. Another November lifer!

At a local park with some very tame ducks and pigeons, I was able to take some fun photos. There isn't usually a coot hanging out with the ducks so that was cool to see.

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

Signature

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📄 hashes-2023-11-23-070152.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: a886c226706b786c7be4bd49d4ab5c80d1e6ec0612a8dd8997c9c7c54b9dd116

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: B2AWZJDC6IYQIKHFGC4YBINJUN7FS247PJQUN5X6IYNGERP4RLKQ