3-Hour Foggy Sunrise on Watts Bar Lake | Real Time with Nature Sounds | November 5, 2026

Foggy sunrise on Watts Bar Lake. Sunrise at 7:09 AM. 58° at first light, climbing to 61°. Dead calm. 13 bird species heard, including American Crow, Carolina Chickadee, and Carolina Wren. 3-hour real-time recording, 6:17 AM to 9:17 AM. Natural sound only, no music added. Lake ambient, birdsong, 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 18:21 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 20:36 Civil twilight begins 39:44 Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 50:53 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) 52:11 Sunrise 59:21 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 1:23:56 Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 1:37:56 Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) 1:43:45 White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 1:46:53 Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1:52:03 Golden hour ends 1:57:27 Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) 2:19:37 Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 2:37:45 Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 2:44:07 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 | November 5   Full landscape timelapse:    • Foggy Sunrise Timelapse on Watts Bar Lake ...   Tons more at    / @wattsbar