Shoot 2024-04-25-203341 — philthompson.me

Birds
Mandel

Older Gallery All Galleries Newer Gallery

Shoot 2024-04-25-203341

We have a park visited by a good variety of birds in the center of town. On a recent visit there I saw a few warbler species, but my target MacGillivray's and Hermit Warblers eluded me.

Next, I took advantage of terrific weather to go birding at the coast. I tried using an inexpensive spotting scope mostly to see what it's like to use while also carrying and using a camera. It definitely provides better views than the binoculars and 840mm lens on the camera, but it's hard to juggle all that equipment. Overall though I think the spotting scope is worth carrying in the right scenario (such as at the coast). There were lots of great birds around and as a bonus I got to add Red-breasted Merganser and Red-throated Loon to my county list.

Lastly, I was able to run and grab my camera to photograph an American Crow in the backyard eating what appeared to have been a Golden-crowned Sparrow. I've heard of corvids eating smaller birds but I've never actually seen this myself. I saw the Crow fly into the yard carring the bird in its bill, so I'm not sure whether it killed the sparrow itself or scavanged it, but I think it likely did kill it. I would imagine it's a bit late in the year for crows to be laying eggs, but perhaps the crow was in urgent need of calories for egg laying, or for tending to its nest or nestlings. Or maybe it was just an opportunistic meal.

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

Signature

📄 hashes-2024-04-25-203341.txt

📄 hashes-2024-04-25-203341.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: 0129fe0389c3642de841370d4e2952f066bf1a23468427817e811e97e7451b23

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: OQGUOABF2EO4ETWSD64AKO5AEUZN5Q6XJFQ6TS4KHAUHZRFTYEWQ

10:50AM Monday April 22, 2024

Hermit Thrush

10:50AM Monday April 22, 2024

Hermit Thrush

11:18AM Monday April 22, 2024

Black-throated Gray Warbler

11:18AM Monday April 22, 2024

Black-throated Gray Warbler

11:18AM Monday April 22, 2024

Black-throated Gray Warbler

11:48AM Monday April 22, 2024

Nashville Warbler

11:48AM Monday April 22, 2024

Nashville Warbler

11:48AM Monday April 22, 2024

Nashville Warbler

10:18AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Common Loon

10:21AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

unknown

10:21AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

unknown

10:24AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Caspian Tern

10:24AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Caspian Tern

10:24AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Caspian Tern

10:24AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Caspian Tern

10:24AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Caspian Tern

10:24AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Caspian Tern

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

I used Photoshop's "Generative Expand" and "Generative Fill" features to push the top and right edges of the frame a bit away from the bird.

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

10:43AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Peregrine Falcon (Peale's)

From what I can see, this is an example of the Peale's subspecies of Peregrine Falcon, which can be found on the coast in the Pacific Northwest.

11:13AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Red-breasted Merganser

11:13AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Red-breasted Merganser

11:14AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Savannah Sparrow

11:15AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Red-breasted Merganser

11:22AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Western Grebe

11:26AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Surf Scoter

11:26AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Surf Scoter

11:26AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Surf Scoter

11:34AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Sanderling, Semipalmated Plover, Dunlin, Western Sandpiper

11:34AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Sanderling, Semipalmated Plover, Dunlin, Western Sandpiper

11:34AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Sanderling, Dunlin, Western Sandpiper

11:34AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Sanderling, Dunlin, Western Sandpiper

11:34AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Sanderling, Dunlin, Western Sandpiper

11:37AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Dunlin, Western Sandpiper

11:38AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Dunlin, Western Sandpiper

11:40AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Osprey

11:40AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Osprey

11:40AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Osprey

11:40AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Osprey

11:41AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Pelagic Cormorant

11:59AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Red-necked Grebe

11:59AM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Red-necked Grebe

12:05PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

California Gull

12:06PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

California Gull

12:06PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

California Gull

12:06PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

California Gull

12:06PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

California Gull

12:07PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:07PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:08PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:08PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:08PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:08PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:08PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:09PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:09PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:09PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:09PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:09PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Bonaparte's Gull

12:14PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Lesser Scaup

12:14PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Lesser Scaup

12:14PM Tuesday April 23, 2024

Lesser Scaup