Birds at the dock

May 3, 2026: 10 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone.

Most active Carolina Wren 44 calls
Farthest traveler Barn Swallow round-trip ~15,687 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.

0122537500 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 ET30 calls at 06:00 ET32 calls at 07:00 ET27 calls at 08:00 ET3 calls at 09:00 ET17 calls at 10:00 ET11 calls at 11:00 ET15 calls at 12:00 ET4 calls at 13:00 ET1 call at 14:00 ET5 calls at 15:00 ET3 calls at 16:00 ET8 calls at 17:00 ET5 calls at 18:00 ET4 calls at 19:00 ET1 call 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

Carolina Wren
Carolina Wren 44 calls
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Chickadee 35 calls
American Crow
American Crow 31 calls
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse 26 calls
Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal 16 calls
Blue Jay
Blue Jay 13 calls
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird 3 calls
Barn Swallow
Barn Swallow 2 calls 15,687 km round trip
Downy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker 1 call
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 call

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.