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Shoot 2024-08-08-114325

We had a male Anna's Hummingbird perching on the little chain suspending the hummingbird feeder, so I went out to get a shot of that.

Down at the wetlands, I saw a large group of Great Egrets hanging out with some Turkey Vultures. One of the egrets was sitting down, which I hadn't seen before. Perhaps it is sick or injured? I'm not sure. There was a White-faced Ibis there the day before, so I was looking out for that. I was lucky to eventually spot it flying — it might have caught my eye because it was a good size and wasn't flying like a heron/bittern. I also photographed a couple of coyotes, again at a good distance.

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

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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.

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11:34AM Saturday August 03, 2024

American Goldfinch

11:37AM Saturday August 03, 2024

Anna's Hummingbird

11:37AM Saturday August 03, 2024

Anna's Hummingbird

11:37AM Saturday August 03, 2024

Anna's Hummingbird

11:37AM Saturday August 03, 2024

Anna's Hummingbird

11:37AM Saturday August 03, 2024

Anna's Hummingbird

I merged this with another frame in Photoshop to create more room at the top.

11:37AM Saturday August 03, 2024

Anna's Hummingbird

I merged this with another frame in Photoshop to create more room at the top.

11:37AM Saturday August 03, 2024

Anna's Hummingbird