Sunrise Observations 2025-05-05 (publ. 2025-05-12)

Some notes from last Monday (2025-05-05): I was able to enjoy a sunrise out in the front yard.

4:39am

The sky is mostly cloudy. Most of the clouds to the N and E are either white-pink or a deep pink color. The clouds on the other half of the sky are a dirty pink, i.e., grey with hints of pink.

To the NE, I see many patches of bright white-blue and light-blue sky, above the trees. Around 20 to 30° elevation, I see a large, complicated cloud with waves of light pink and red-pink.

To the E, just above the tree tops, a handful of small, slightly puffy — but mostly flat — clouds are a mix of grey-blue and red-pink, intermingled, which gives a purple look overall. These small clouds have a large white-pink cloud behind them.

Bird sounds are coming from all directions:

- One bird gives off a warbling sound that slides up, and then down.

- Another gives off long triplets of a single high pitch.

- Another has a rapid trill of around 4 notes lasting about half-a-second, repeating twice about every 1.5 seconds

- Another bird mixes staccato notes with a short, vibrating trill

5:01am

Many small, broken pink or purple clouds to the NNE are still visible, but they are almost overwhelmed by a backdrop of bright, white clouds. These are like shafts of bright light, but the shafts extend only over the clouds themselves, not further out into the sky.

Most clouds to the NE and E are now bright white, and there are some grey-pink clouds to the SE, S, and W.

5:21am

The birds are still very noisy. One bird has a rapid, pulsing trill of about 7 or 8 notes per second. It sounds like a small metal bell being rapidly shaken, or rather like a small piece of metal clinking against a metal housing.

I think sunrise-chasing season is over for me, as the sun is rising now too early for it to be convenient to make a drive somewhere, and then head out to work. But maybe I'll catch another sunrise or two out in the front yard.

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