3-Hour Foggy Sunrise on Watts Bar Lake | Real Time with Nature Sounds | October 25, 2026

Foggy sunrise on Watts Bar Lake. Sunrise at 7:58 AM. 50° at first light, climbing to 54°. Light wind. 12 bird species heard, including American Crow, Tufted Titmouse, and Carolina Chickadee. 3-hour real-time recording, 7:08 AM to 10:08 AM. Natural sound only, no music added. Lake ambient, birdsong, boat traffic, and the slow shift of light across the water. Bird species identified by Cornell Lab's BirdNET acoustic classifier (https://birdnet.cornell.edu). Each species chapter is the timestamp where that bird's call is most prominent in the recording. Acoustic ID is not perfect, but BirdNET is reliable for our region's common species. Bird nerds: corrections welcome in the comments. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-dawn 2:10 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 5:51 Moon sets 19:32 Civil twilight begins 23:02 Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) 27:47 Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 34:17 Boats on the water 50:31 Sunrise 57:42 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 1:02:32 Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 1:49:21 Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 1:53:04 Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 2:11:40 White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 2:27:56 Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) Watts Bar Lake is a 39,000-acre TVA reservoir on the Tennessee River in East Tennessee. Daily sunrise and sunset clips from a dock on the eastern shore. Continuous 30 fps recording, natural sound, no music added on long-form versions. Daily lake conditions, forecasts, ramps, and marinas: https://watts.bar #WattsBarLake #Sunrise #LakeSounds #NatureSounds #Ambient ••• Other versions of this morning on the channel: Vertical sun-tracked Short:    • Foggy Sunrise on Watts Bar Lake | October 25   Full landscape timelapse:    • Foggy Sunrise Timelapse on Watts Bar Lake ...   Tons more at    / @wattsbar