Birds at the dock

May 2, 2026: 8 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone.

Most active American Crow 29 calls
Farthest traveler Eastern Kingbird round-trip ~13,224 km

Calls by hour

Eastern Time, today

Each bar counts distinct 30-second windows in which BirdNET identified a species at high confidence. The dawn chorus typically peaks between 6 and 8 a.m.

051015200 calls at 00:00 ET0 calls at 01:00 ET0 calls at 02:00 ET0 calls at 03:00 ET0 calls at 04:00 ET0 calls at 05:00 ET0 calls at 06:00 ET0 calls at 07:00 ET3 calls at 08:00 ET2 calls at 09:00 ET4 calls at 10:00 ET3 calls at 11:00 ET7 calls at 12:00 ET2 calls at 13:00 ET8 calls at 14:00 ET3 calls at 15:00 ET17 calls at 16:00 ET0 calls at 17:00 ET0 calls at 18:00 ET0 calls at 19:00 ET0 calls at 20:00 ET0 calls at 21:00 ET0 calls at 22:00 ET0 calls at 23:00 ET12 AM4 AM8 AMNOON4 PM8 PM

Species heard

American Crow
American Crow 29 calls
Blue Jay
Blue Jay 12 calls
Carolina Wren
Carolina Wren 3 calls
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse 2 calls
Tree Swallow
Tree Swallow 1 call 5,888 km round trip
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird 1 call 13,224 km round trip
Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal 1 call
Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher 1 call 8,063 km round trip

How this works

A microphone is mounted at the dock at Tennessee River Mile 559.5, listening to the lake 24/7. Audio runs through BirdNET from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, an open-source neural network that identifies bird species by sound. Detections at high confidence are tallied here.

Bird photos are fetched automatically from Wikipedia and cropped to the bird with YOLOv8. Individual photo credits are on each species' Wikipedia page.