3-Hour Partly Cloudy Calm Sunrise on Watts Bar Lake | Real Time Nature Sounds | October 21, 2026

Partly Cloudy Calm sunrise on Watts Bar Lake. Sunrise at 7:54 AM. 46° at first light, climbing to 53°. Calm. 12 bird species heard, including Carolina Chickadee, Blue Jay, and Carolina Wren. 3-hour real-time recording, 7:04 AM to 10:04 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 20:03 Civil twilight begins 21:10 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 28:03 Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 43:33 Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 48:54 Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) 50:43 Sunrise 1:17:42 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 1:21:28 Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 1:33:55 Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 1:41:27 Boats on the water 1:47:56 Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) 1:50:38 Golden hour ends 1:53:17 Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 2:00:19 Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) 2:12:08 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) 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