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Moveon
I didn't fish today but I did watch the birds at the birdfeeder looking all around and for a long time. This one Titmouse bird just sat on the top rail of my deck and looked all around for a couple of minutes. They have never done that before. Normally they head straight to the sunflower seed box and pick up one see and fly off to the nearest tree and sit up in the tree cracking open the seed to eat. Then they repeat the process. Some time I'll have several Titmice Birds arrive at the same time. They hardly ever hesitate and look around like the one did to day. I was also looking around at the dim lighting effects. There were still shadows under the trees but the light was considerable warmer and less intense. It was eerie like in a sci-fi movie. The day the earth stood still was one movie that it reminded me of.
The humming birds didn't seem to mind the reduced lighting effects from the partial solar eclipse in Evansville, IN
The security lights on the East Side of the Garage did come on due to the reduced sunlight. But that part of the house is shaded by a big tree. I didn't look at the security light on the South Side of the House which is in full sunlight normally. It's a big 500 watt light that can be seen even in the day time if it's on. I didn't see it come on. It really didn't look that dark outside. But it did look different.
Some say that the fish go deep or hide in the weeds or on the shaded side of stumps due to the sunlight. So I would think that if the eclipse lasted longer than a few minutes It might have a greater effect on the fish. They would be shallower IMHO. But just a few minutes is not really enough time to get them to come up. The would come up and have to dive back down when the sun came out from behind the moon.
I did wonder what the alignment of the sun and moon together did to the gravitation pull of them on the earth. Anyone notice what the ocean tides did today?
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