The temperature this morning was 25°F. Wind was calm. There were people stationed all around Jordan lake this morning for the quarterly bald eagle count. Just after the count began this morning the sun began to unfurl its textures and mantle the skies in shimmering glory.
Will be posting eagle count totals at a later date.
Doc Ellen’s Natural Minute. Sunrise Jordan Lake 10/25/2024. The prominent song you can hear is a tiny Carolina wren. I could occasionally hear a golden-crowned kinglet but never saw it. A duck floated past. A couple of woodpeckers occasionally knocked hello.
It was a few minutes after sunrise. The Haw River was thundering out from underneath the Jordan Lake dam. Across from me and down the riprap there were a total of 52 great egrets. This time of the year I’m used to seeing maybe two dozen at a time… but a whole 52 card deck of them? There were a few great blue herons in the mix. By 30 minutes after sunrise all but three of the great egrets had left the riprap.
The crows and I watched as Mother Nature began to dye the silk of her skirts with the liquid golds of autumn. The sunrise of the first day of fall filled air, water and my heart with the changing of the season.
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Jordan Lake. This fledgling osprey and his catfish catch certainly show the glory of the morning golden hour. In photography the golden “hour” is the short moment of time just after sunrise or just before sunset when the light is infused with red and gold tones.
OK! Hang in here with me and the fog. The clip shows some of the peculiarities you can run into with fog and a camera. I was at the dam before sunrise this morning. Really wanted to show to all of you the incredible flow of the Haw River and maybe, just maybe a sunrise too. Fog! The river was much warmer than the air above it and so fog was scattered everywhere. Cameras don’t like to try to focus a video through fog. One thing to take a shot of fog hanging in the trees or being still on the lake … another thing totally when you want to track through the fog. Please hang in there with me as I try to show you the fog, the river thundering out of the tailrace and across the fishing pier, and just maybe a snippet of the sunrise. Thanks for putting up with me.
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