Shoot 2024-10-31-101829 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2024-10-31-101829

Several recent birding outings are represented here in this gallery, with nothing too noteworthy.

I got a cool sequence of shots of a Bald Eagle landing on perch, but it was a bit above my head, the light was harsh, and the background is plain blue sky. They are good photos but they're missing a few elements that would make them "great" in my opinion. But it's always nice to see these impressive birds!

On a separate outing, the last photos in the gallery here, I had a bit of an oddity. I noticed a Northern Shrike sitting in a tree with a Northern Flicker. I took some photos of them both but didn't notice until later that the Northern Flicker has a black malar stripe and no red on the nape. It appears to be some sort of (Yellow-shafted x Red-shafted) hybrid.

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

Signature

📄 hashes-2024-10-31-101829.txt

📄 hashes-2024-10-31-101829.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: cb4681666a05d32911869eca35bf5c64266570f5644f3f6bc312c6074c3dc98e

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: EJJ2C75T734NPM6OFBSDJ6RSOHSO27OM4KTG3GVOML3PNIHXBPNA