Shoot 2023-12-27-144212 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2023-12-27-144212

I enjoyed a quiet walk at some local ponds. There weren't any exotic birds, but I did get some nice shots of a Hermit Thrush. Another highlight was some Double-crested Cormorants perching in unusual places.

At home, I was trying to photograph a Dark-eyed Junco when an irate Anna's Hummingbird flew in to reclaim a stick near the feeder. The Junco flew off after just a few moments of hummingbird screeching.

I also added another bird to the yard photos list: Common Raven. I've heard them well overhead a few times from the yard lately, but this time one spent a while squawking from the top of a tree and I was able to photograph it.

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

Signature

📄 hashes-2023-12-27-144212.txt

📄 hashes-2023-12-27-144212.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: b5c4348902fcc7c2f73897c089cc31eae94ae783ef1743e0731b150e9e9106d7

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: I2EJGASBYJGXTSANZDDPEKDTD5P5ZVVRFVZPAAXZJK5VO6QVSEOA

11:30AM Tuesday December 19, 2023

Hermit Thrush