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Ahhhh, a real spring day! Knowing it was going to be in the 60s(bout freaking time) I had planned to do something outside. I thought I'd either give the dogs some time outdoors, or head out and look for the bald eagles again. When I woke up I figured I'd do both, head out for the eagles once the 12z GFS was in(watching the system for Mach 17th'ish) then head out to walk the dogs. Randy called just before I was about to head out, letting me know the eagles were back, but already took off again...that and there was a big halo. I thought, eh, I see halos often enough, no hurry. As I leave town and look out to view the halo I thought to myself, jeez that is a very bright halo. It was bright enough I decided to change out my 100-400L lens for my wide angle....while driving....I didn't want it to lighten(they can be fairly fickle). I'm sure I've seen halos at least 50 times, and it's fairly easy to call this the brightest I've ever seen. The top of it was especially bright. The first photo was taken west of town before noon. It is at 10mm with my 10-22mm lens. That's a very wide angle view. What I never noticed was that added arc at the top of the halo. I've never seen that before. It must be an Upper Tangent Arc. It looks a bit like the ones I see online, but not exactly. Actually it looks quite a bit different than the ones I see online, but it's in the location they are, so who knows. Edit: Looking around a bit more, it looks like it would be called a Circumscribed Halo, for that small arc at the top.
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Of course I had to use the tornado siren.
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The other arc is still at the top of the main halo. It was up there for hours apparently.
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Burning through my hand! I blocked it out with my hand and noticed it looked kind of neat when I let some come through between my fingers.
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Geese. Migration is now well underway with the warmer weather. All day groups and groups of geese flew by heading north.
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I'm not sure what there were more of, geese or jets. Notice it looks like the jet went right down the middle of the sun. It was close, but I had to let it drift to that spot from the nw. Also notice the shadow of the contrail on the clouds below. Hard to see but the shadow is just "above" the contrail.
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Now at Desoto Bend probably 2 in the afternoon.
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The top portion of the halo remained quite strong....at least when thicker clouds moved out of the way. Lots and lots of geese trucking north.
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Notice the bottom right side, the arc splitting off the halo is still there. Hard to see but it's there.
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There appeared to be a notable increase in eagles over there now. I'm not certain what this is above, if it's a immature eagle, a hawk, or even a turkey vulture. It wasn't bald and neither was the other one right with it. There were several bald eagles flying around though. It just looked neat as it crossed under the geese train above. |
