3-Hour Partly Cloudy Sunset on Watts Bar Lake | Real Time with Nature Sounds | October 3, 2026

Partly Cloudy sunset on Watts Bar Lake. Sunset at 7:15 PM. 76° peak, cooling to 71° after the sun set. Calm. 9 bird species heard, including Carolina Wren, Carolina Chickadee, and Northern Cardinal. 3-hour real-time recording, 5:14 PM to 8:14 PM. 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-sunset 8:59 Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 13:17 Boats on the water 1:01:08 Golden hour begins 1:05:20 Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1:58:19 Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 2:01:09 Sunset 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 #Sunset #LakeSounds #NatureSounds #Ambient ••• Other versions of this morning on the channel: Vertical sun-tracked Short:    • Partly Cloudy Sunset on Watts Bar Lake | O...   Full landscape timelapse:    • Partly Cloudy Sunset Timelapse on Watts Ba...   Tons more at    / @wattsbar