Shoot 2023-12-18-132557 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2023-12-18-132557

On a gray and rainy morning, I returned to the same place I saw my first White-throated Sparrow almost exactly one year ago, and was able to find and photograph one again. It's been really nice having a rain cover for my camera and lens. I feel like I can go out in any conditions, and it seems like many places are less crowded when the weather isn't nice anyway.

I also made a few trips out to look for more rare birds, and I was successful on one outing: I saw my lifer Snowy Egret! It was another gray overcast day, and down at the wetlands there was lots of standing water everywhere reflecting the nearly white sky. So it was nearly impossible to see the little white egret. Thanks to some folks who had already found it, I was able to get some photos and a look through my binoculars. The egrets and herons in the area are usually pretty flightly, so I didn't want to get very close to it, but it was still really cool to see such a rare visitor.

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

Signature

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📄 hashes-2023-12-18-132557.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: bd6dfad3a71ec45e41e0b93bf5f95fbd5ac239dbcd986f94d83a2224d0f8a84d

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: ZVF33TRYDEBA2XPAAQ35OJBJLZVQHHYGJMRIZT2XB7RY3ORL7IXQ