As photographers with long lenses set up along Water Street on the shoreline of Passamaquoddy Bay in Saint Andrews by the Sea, New Brunswick, Canada, they all had the same thing on their LCD screens. Not an eclipsed sunrise but flocks of sandpipers and other shorebirds flocking against a reddening dawn sky.
The low horizon, the unincorporated community of L'Etete across the bay, began to glow as sunrise neared. It was low tide, and the stunning colors were reflected in puddles in the bay. Then, it was time for the sun to appear. "We could just see the trees lighting up like little horns, and the sky was lightening," said astronomy author and photographer Alan Dyer. "I thought we were going to see it burn through the cloud — and then it just faded out."
