Shoot 2024-11-05-093729 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2024-11-05-093729

I had an unusual nice close encounter with a Golden-crowned Kinglet, and I got decent photos. I did a bit of gull ID practice, and was motivated to buy the new book The Gull Guide: North America by Amar Ayyash. Hopefully it'll help with future gull ID'ing!

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: ad9edb0cce20000075a2369b5daf9465a5fa81a9adb299ec1a2275bbd8b185dd

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: FHE6DFX6ZRWBD7GHYZKMEFHHON25WX3EUC6SFXH2CIERM3L7DONA

7:54PM Tuesday October 29, 2024

This is a photo of the constellation Hercules, shot from my back yard. I was trying my new Move Shoot Move Nomad star tracker, and the results were pretty good. I was able to do 15- or 20-second exposures without any visible star trails, but I stacked 51 13-second images (11 minutes of data) for this shot. There were thin clouds but aside from the glow around the bright stars it was mostly eliminated by stacking. A bigger version can be seen on my AstroBin post.

8:00AM Saturday November 02, 2024

Golden-crowned Kinglet

8:00AM Saturday November 02, 2024

Golden-crowned Kinglet

8:01AM Saturday November 02, 2024

Golden-crowned Kinglet

8:01AM Saturday November 02, 2024

Golden-crowned Kinglet

8:01AM Saturday November 02, 2024

Golden-crowned Kinglet

8:01AM Saturday November 02, 2024

Golden-crowned Kinglet

8:42AM Monday November 04, 2024

Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid)

This looks mostly like a Glaucous-winged Gull to me, but the wingtips are too dark. As far as I know this indicates it's likely a Glaucous/Western hybrid which are super common in the PNW. The wing tips aren't dark enough for a Western Gull, and the head has way too much gray streaking for a Western Gull.