Shoot 2024-08-15-075603 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2024-08-15-075603

I returned to the coast to look for "fall" migrants. I didn't see any but in hindsight I didn't spend any time looking out to sea! I should have done some scanning of the horizon with my scope — perhaps I'll remember for next time. On the other hand if I did happen to see some distant migrating sea birds I'm not sure I'd be able to ID them anyway.

I did see some good birds on the rocks including a bunch of Black Turnstones, several Wandering Tattlers, and one particular Pigeon Guillemot that flew in and landed nice and close for a photo opportunity. The highlight of this trip were my first photos of Hermit Warbler. I wasn't expecting to see them, but some were down close to eye level along with a few other warbler species. There was an adult feeding an immature/juvenile. I watched them for a while and was able to get a couple decent shots.

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: 02c75756fc069ce62c18d616dc2ab626f7bfb08ed8dabf3209d56e84006a4459

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: HSRFZIPDSFCUXXI4KMK7ZA3NR2YQMAS4CWDFBNTWZKJ5TGHXZNWA