Shoot 2024-04-16-094824 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2024-04-16-094824

I watched a Pacific Wren building a nest among the upturned roots of a fallen tree. This is apparently a common practice for some populations of PNW Pacific Wrens. It was a quiet walk in the woods otherwise, with another highlight being a pair of Sharp-shinned Hawks.

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: c25dc2d370940f8541865d84d8e0486df1421c54fd6cb4ec5ec631f46553754f

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10:25AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:25AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:28AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:29AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:29AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:29AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:31AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:31AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:31AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:31AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

10:31AM Monday April 01, 2024

Sharp-shinned Hawk

11:04AM Monday April 01, 2024

Pacific Wren

According to Cornell Lab's Birds of the World, males build nests but females often help line the nests before laying eggs. It was unclear whether the nesting material being gathered here was for building or lining, so it's unclear whether I was watching a male or female.