The day · City of Fredericton, New Brunswick
Dusk · 26 min left
Sun 7.9° below the horizon, in the west · Acadian Forest & Atlantic Coast
The kind of day it is
High overcast
A lid of cloud over everything. Light is flat and diffuse, shadows are gone, and the whole day behaves like an extended dawn — fish roam shallow, and greens that would bolt in sun hold on.
The whole day is usable. This is the day to cover water and to transplant.
The day, phase by phase
Happening now · 19:38–20:44
1h 6m long
Dusk
Where the sun is this minute. Its highest today: 46.9°.
The sun is under the horizon but still lighting the sky from below. The ground begins to radiate its heat straight up into a clear sky and cools faster than the air above it.
Where the light lands · Acadian Forest & Atlantic Coast
Long northern dusk. In June there is still light in the north-west sky at eleven at night.
Up close
The intertidal cools fast and the pools that were baking at noon are back to sea temperature. Everything in them has survived a thirty-degree swing in twelve hours.
The whole landscape
Fog forms over the cold water offshore and drifts in overnight. By morning it will be sitting in every cove on the coast.
In the water now
Walleyebest now
Up on the shoals and weed edges in two to four metres, hunting into the shallows as the light goes.
Largemouth bassbest now
Cruising the weed edges, pads and shallow flats, ambushing anything that moves across the top.
Brook troutbest now
In the riffles and at the heads of pools, taking insects off the surface as the hatch comes off.
Brown troutbest now
The most nocturnal trout there is. After dark the big ones leave cover and hunt the shallows and the tailouts.
Flat light spreads fish out and holds them shallow through the middle of the day.
In the garden now
Ruby-throated hummingbirdbest now
Feeding hardest in the first and last hour — it burns through the night's reserves by dawn and must refuel before dark.
Green lacewingbest now
Adults fly at dusk and through the night; the larvae hunt around the clock and do the real work.
Tomato hornwormbest now
Feeding on the upper leaves, though it is easiest to find at dusk with a UV torch — it glows.
Running the soil surface after dark, taking slugs, cutworms and larvae. One of the best predators a garden has.
The kindest day for transplanting there is, and the safest for sowing.
Sitting this one out
Northern pike · Yellow perch · Bluegill · Honey bee · Bumble bees · Hoverfly
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