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Shoot 2025-02-28-111228

This is a big catchall gallery to wrap up the month of February. Over the course of a few outings I dipped on a Snowy Egret and Redhead, but I saw an unexpected Eurasian Wigeon and also got a look at a Harris's Sparrow. It was also nice to find a small group of White-throated Sparrows.

We've had a bit more sunshine and less overcast weather lately, so I experimented a bit with shooting stopped down to f/10 with my lens when possible. The Pacific Wren shots worked pretty good, perhaps helped with some extra sharpness from f/10.

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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1:11PM Wednesday February 12, 2025

Red-shouldered Hawk

1:11PM Wednesday February 12, 2025

Red-shouldered Hawk

11:59AM Monday February 17, 2025

Eurasian Wigeon, American Wigeon

11:59AM Monday February 17, 2025

Eurasian Wigeon, American Wigeon

12:03PM Monday February 17, 2025

Eurasian Wigeon, American Wigeon

This male Eurasian Wigeon was so far away that it was challenging to find him in the viewfinder. When editing the this photo I noticed it looks like there were two of them!

9:34AM Tuesday February 18, 2025

White-throated Sparrow

9:35AM Tuesday February 18, 2025

White-throated Sparrow

9:35AM Tuesday February 18, 2025

White-throated Sparrow

9:36AM Tuesday February 18, 2025

White-throated Sparrow

8:27AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)

I've seen Flickers hanging out in larger groups only a few times, so it was nice to get a photo of that.

8:38AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Common Raven

9:20AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Wilson's Snipe

9:20AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Wilson's Snipe

9:20AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Wilson's Snipe

9:20AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Wilson's Snipe

9:20AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Wilson's Snipe

9:20AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Wilson's Snipe

9:22AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Tree Swallow

The lighting isn't great and the photo is soft, but I love the facial expression!

9:25AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Tree Swallow

9:25AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Tree Swallow

9:25AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Tree Swallow

9:25AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Tree Swallow

9:25AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Tree Swallow

9:26AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Tree Swallow

I caught a photo of this swallow scratching itself mid-flight!

9:26AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Tree Swallow

9:26AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Tree Swallow

9:29AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Coyote

9:29AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Coyote

9:29AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Coyote

9:29AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Coyote

10:01AM Thursday February 20, 2025

Northern Pintail

10:58AM Friday February 21, 2025

I used Photoshop's generative fill feature to remove a prominent stick on the right side of the frame.

10:58AM Friday February 21, 2025

I used Photoshop's generative fill feature to remove a prominent stick on the right side of the frame.

11:24AM Friday February 21, 2025

Pacific Wren

11:24AM Friday February 21, 2025

Pacific Wren

11:26AM Friday February 21, 2025

Pacific Wren

11:26AM Friday February 21, 2025

Pacific Wren

11:26AM Friday February 21, 2025

Pacific Wren

11:26AM Friday February 21, 2025

Pacific Wren

11:53AM Friday February 21, 2025

Golden-crowned Kinglet

11:53AM Friday February 21, 2025

Golden-crowned Kinglet

I spent a few minutes trying to photograph some eye-level Golden-crowned Kinglets. I didn't have much luck. These two photos were the best but there was some vegetation in the way in the foregound, causing a large area of the photos (including the bird) to be a bit soft and green-tinted. I was able to fit them somewhat with dehaze, tint, and temperature adjustments in Lightroom Classic. I'll keep trying for a clear eye-level picture of these guys!