Birds at the dock

May 4, 2026: 11 species identified by BirdNET listening to the dock microphone.

Most active Carolina Wren 74 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 ET23 calls at 06:00 ET49 calls at 07:00 ET9 calls at 08:00 ET30 calls at 09:00 ET12 calls at 10:00 ET8 calls at 11:00 ET26 calls at 12:00 ET32 calls at 13:00 ET11 calls at 14:00 ET3 calls at 15:00 ET3 calls at 16:00 ET9 calls at 17:00 ET1 call at 18:00 ET1 call at 19:00 ET2 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

Carolina Wren
Carolina Wren 74 calls
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse 61 calls
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Chickadee 27 calls
American Crow
American Crow 19 calls
Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal 17 calls
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird 15 calls
Blue Jay
Blue Jay 12 calls
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 calls
Canada Goose
Canada Goose 1 call
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 call
Barn Swallow
Barn Swallow 1 call 15,687 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.