I woke up early in anticipation of seeing some fog this particular morning. Early for me is a spunky 3 a.m. Your mileage may vary. I looked outside, and even though it was dark, I knew there was no fog as the stars were readily visible. Oh well, the weather guessers had misled me again. I puttered around for an hour or so, and decided I would go back to bed and that was that.
Next thing I know, it’s 7 a.m., and everything is bright and white outside. White as in foggy. I quickly rushed downstairs and grabbed the drone off the refrigerator where it lives, and hollered back to my co-pilot to get dressed and meet me out on the porch. She complied without complaint which is… well let’s not go there. I lifted off into the white and attained my maximum altitude of 300 ft. I could still hear the drone and see its red blinking nav lights, so we were good to go in that respect. I noticed that we had picked up a bit of moisture on the camera lens on the drone, so I resolved that issue by pointing the drone due east into the bright shining Sun for about a minute and the moisture evaporated off the camera lens.
Got a good look at everything; very interesting how the layer of fog blanketed most things, thinning out here and there. We are pretty flat here in this part of Minnesota so there were not many hills poking through. I did notice bodies of water were much thicker with fog and it looked like the sun was starting to eat away at this white blanket.
I panned around a couple of times and landed. Landing is as easy as pressing a button on the app and since the drone is gps-guided, it landed within about a foot and a half of where we took off. The rest of the morning was comprised of me thinking it might be a good time for a nap.
Later that day, I noticed a young Hummingbird at our feeder. For being little guys, they are quite aggressive with driving off other birds from “their” feeder.
This is the long play version of a immature Hummer preening and being joined by another Hummer.