The day · City of Moncton, New Brunswick
Dusk · 18 min left
Sun 9° below the horizon, in the west · Acadian Forest & Atlantic Coast
The kind of day it is
Bluebird
Clear, bright and still. The most pleasant day to be out and the hardest one to fish: with no cloud to break the light, fish go deep or under cover and only really feed at the ends of the day.
Go at first light or golden hour and skip the middle of the day.
The day, phase by phase
Happening now · 19:32–20:36
1h 4m long
Dusk
Where the sun is this minute. Its highest today: 46.7°.
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.
Bright and still pushes fish deep, into shade and under structure. Work the edges 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.
Peak photosynthesis and peak water loss. Beds dry fast and transplants sulk.
Sitting this one out
Northern pike · Yellow perch · Bluegill · Honey bee · Bumble bees · Hoverfly
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