3-Hour Foggy Sunrise on Watts Bar Lake | Real Time with Nature Sounds | October 31, 2026

Foggy sunrise on Watts Bar Lake. Sunrise at 8:04 AM. 56° at first light, climbing to 60°. Dead calm. 14 bird species heard, including Carolina Wren, Carolina Chickadee, and American Crow. 3-hour real-time recording, 7:13 AM to 10:13 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 2:41 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 4:14 Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 20:00 Civil twilight begins 23:16 Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) 36:34 Boats on the water 51:15 Sunrise 1:23:01 Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1:26:16 House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) 1:46:53 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 1:51:07 Golden hour ends 1:59:07 White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 2:07:06 Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 2:17:31 Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) 2:26:04 Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 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 31   Full landscape timelapse:    • Foggy Sunrise Timelapse on Watts Bar Lake ...   Tons more at    / @wattsbar