Shoot 2024-01-14-200831 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2024-01-14-200831

On several recent trips out to see potential county and lifer birds, I was only successful once: I had a great encounter with a Say's Phoebe. I'd seen this bird once previously, where I only got a poor photo, so this wasn't technically a lifer. But I got a much better view this time, and better photos. I was very lucky to get so close to this bird. It appeared right at the very edge a huge field, at the right time, right where I was standing. It flew around from perch to perch for a few minutes, and it sat still for a little while upon each perch. I like watching Black Phoebes fly around and do their thing, and this Say's Phoebe behaved similarly. I typically see Black Phoebes right at the water's edge, and this one, as expected, was away from water in a field. What a memorable experience!

I was also fortunate enough to see a Bewick's Wren in my yard. This is a super common bird here, but for some reason I've only seen one twice now in my yard. I was able to take a nice shot of this bird as well, improving upon my best yard photo for this wren.

I also got a little carried away snapping photos of a Brown Creeper making its way up the tree next to our deck. When they're just a couple feet away it's hard to resist taking photos! I got some shots where it's holding a little red spider in its bill, which I never would have known if not for the photos.

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

Signature

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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: 21c89ac0aa2f58085d5e99b2afc5bb294cb914593743fd92f61cf9d587d94ccd

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Black Phoebe

11:03AM Thursday January 04, 2024

Black Phoebe

10:09AM Saturday January 06, 2024

Bewick's Wren

10:09AM Saturday January 06, 2024

Bewick's Wren

10:11AM Saturday January 06, 2024

Bewick's Wren

10:11AM Saturday January 06, 2024

Bewick's Wren